Magic is and always has been real
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Not a shill. I like the video. But what does it have to do with magic? Big if true.
This should not be too controversial. Acupuncture is real, afaik. If the guy is a con and miracle doctor, he is the first one who said "anybody can learn this" and "it takes a lot of dedication and practice, took me 18 years". Sounds more like the local cat barber who is amazingly good at calming pets, deflecting compliments. Good catch.
The burning newspaper and pellet stuff looks more like stage magic and I have no other explanation for that. Any takers? Perhaps the entire video is fake? The ending sounds like a bullshit cop-out. Far-out stuff, but in a good way.
Thanks for checking it out! I recommend the book if you have any doubts on the authenticity of what you see. A mechanical engineer who worked on the f-18 fighter jet program for General Dynamics saw the ‘89 doc (the first part of the linked video), found Chang, and trained under him for a decade before writing that book to tell the story to the west, like the video attempts to. The scientists in the video are all legit, you can find them on linkedin if you want.
The only reason to think it’s fake, and this is an honest statement by me after ~10 years of looking into this, is because you can’t conceive of the universe where it’s true (yet). None of the debunks work (when you’ve read the small handful of books by people who’ve met him, scoured martial arts and taoist and buddhist and occult forum archives to find information shared by (proven) students, etc.)
And once you can accept that it is possible to focus energies in such ways as shown in the video, really anything becomes possible. Human potential grows by magnitudes when you accept the validity in what is demonstrated by Chang and others.
You know how through “trial and error” (Western derision) and thousands of years, Traditional Chinese Medicine was able to “stumble” on some real cures? Given the storied history of Kung/gung-fu and the martial arts like tai chi, I think they’ve managed to again “stumble” onto some great truths that we have yet to acknowledge over here.
For some reason, engineers can be the most gullible victims of supernatural cons, usually at a more mature age. Perhaps a subconscious reaction to a life in the no-nonsense world of reason and numbers, I don't know.
I found books on Chang with google, and also on the practice, i.e. mo pai nei kung. The ten years of training give his account weight, if legit.
Some scientists are also gullible, if James Randi is to be believed, what he probably is.
Not sure if I would trust my own eyes if I had met John Chang in person.
Acceptance is independet from the demonstrated human potential. If I could set newspapers ablaze with bare hands or heal tinnitus I would give a damn about what other people think. To John Chang's credit, he apparently gives a damn about that.
Stumble? They researched it systematically. They even kept the records of what did NOT work. That's patently scientific, even if you don't ignore the fact that they were not interested in researching the underlying physics or neurology.
That's what makes the whole thing somewhat plausible.
(Why haven't doctors researched this, people may ask, if legit?
Perhaps for the same reason doctors have not researched medical cannabis. I met with a rogue doctor's encounter/alumni group of cancer- and rheuma patients for political reasons, without expecting much from that. Un-fucking-believable. Most of them had resorted to oil and reefers as a hail mary pass, in the face of more or less certain death. Results within days. And a dealer-friend of mine showed me a video recorded by an epileptic customer and his mother who anointed him on the chest, what stopped a hard seizure (think Pris' final moments in bladerunner) in ca. 20 seconds. The most stunning and undeniable, personally witnessed, results-within-in-minutes account would dox me, but cannabis as medication is realrealreal.)
Kannehbosem, the holy anointing oil... you seem open to new ideas which is great, I wouldn’t put people like Randi (or Shermer, or West, or Nye, or Tyson, or ...) on too high a pedestal. Science is our greatest tool for finding our way in the dark, but we can’t let it become a dogmatic belief system. That just leads to disgraces like Sheldrake, Schoch, Hancock et al, and so on. Great thinkers smeared and suppressed for “woowoo” (one of the most mentally subversive and worthless terms in the last 20 years)
Edit:also, I agree re: TCM, that’s why I called “trial and error” western derision and put “stumbled” in quotes. It’s as scientific as the internal alchemy practiced by Chang and his 2000+ year old lineage.
Unfortunately the school has been closed to westerners for over 15 years now, and according to multiple accounts it sounds like DJ passed near the start of 2020 unfortunately. So while there is more for you to learn here (Jim McMillan wrote a book as well, one of the other few westerners, thetaobums forum has a bunch of archived discussion on Mo Pai even with some students commenting now and then, kostas did a Q&A there that’s worth reading too). However Mo Pai is just a stop on the way, it isn’t the destination (as unfortunate as it may seem, after discovering it).
So to answer your question, the principles of the practice are in that book along with everything you need to take your first steps down an endless road, but don’t expect a guide to becoming the next DJ.