R.K. Locke Wrote:Lots of interesting stuff to mull over here. I can see how these ideas and concepts tie together a variety of philosophies (occult and otherwise) across cultures and time periods. Everything from Taoism to esoteric traditions to Wilhelm Reich.
Would this be a good example of the mastery of Chi?:
I heard back this morning from one of two friends that I sent a link of this clip to. Both have been practising Tai Chi, Pakua, Hung Kuen and other Chinese martial arts for around 40 years. My friend had seen this clip about five years ago and, curiously, his wife, who is Russian, knew the director of the documentary (an old flame) and so they asked him about the footage to see if it was genuine or faked. The doco makers assured them that it was genuine. He had been on the table and felt the burst of Chi.
And here things get strange. In the footage the narrator says that the Dynamo Jack disappeared for many years. He went deep into the forest to live because the CIA were after him to learn about his powers. I suppose they wanted to know about his meditation techniques. And then after he came back to relative civilization he had that dream of his late master,
Liao Tsu-Tong chastising him for showing off and causing harm.
I note also that the pose of him meditating in a standing position with his elbows drawn back and his palms facing upwards is a classic martial arts pose, which comes as no surprise, because Dynamo Jack, whose real name was John Chang, was a practitioner of Nei Kung (Chi Kung) and as you see from the link provided (
HERE) the (first drawing) is of Yang family Tai Chi grand master Yang Cheng Fu, demonstrating a Chi Kung Fu and Tai Chi form called Fan Through the Back.
