The Magus of Java

First, let’s dispense with your assumptions. How do you know what my powers are? You can’t know and don’t know. However, as an act of compassion to relieve your ignorance, I will reveal my main magical power at the end of this post.

I haven’t met Chang, and thus have no comment about him. I did see the film. But Kostas interpretation is what you are getting.

The lighting the paper on fire is a common “circus qigong” trick in china, involves putting some phosphorus chemical on it beforehand, then any contact with spit or dop of sweat will ignire it. I had one teacher play out this whole charade on me in China, accompanied by special qigong and mumbo jumbo. Buyer beware….

It doesn’t mean that Chang has no chi, or that he is a low level charlatan. it’s common amongst filipino healers to pull guts and blood out of patients – that they are pulling out of their sleeve. But the rational is that it helped the patient believe in their healing process. Some qigogn teachers might rationalize their circus tricks in the same way – it inspires their students to practice harder.

There are lots of circus qigong shows in china, usually farmers travelllng around the countryside in the off season, trying to make a little money. Walking on egg shells, bending steel swords pushed against their throat, etc. etc. Circus qigong is definitely a skill, it requires serious training and ability. But for what? To earn a little money, impress someone else? Let’s not confuse energy feats with spiritual development.

Other magical feats are usually accomplished by astral projection, i.e. someone is able to project their mind so powerfully it becomes your temporary astral reality. A better known example of this is the indian guru Sai Baba, with hundreds witnessing to his magical ability to manifest objects, holy water, stacks of money, etc. Astral projection is a real talent, no question about it. But does it last? Only in the mind of the believer.

I personally could never stand to even look at Sai Baba’s photo, it made me uncomfortable, I absolutely did not trust him. He eventually was exposed as using his guru position to engage in pedophilia with hundreds of young male followers. I guess he could astrally manifest everything except the one thing he craved, young male penises. Maybe he needed their jing to produce his astral projections.

The lesson: low astral manifestation is NOT a sign of high spirtual accomplishment.

We could go on and on here, but I dont’ have time.

I will just quickly let you know that I have the greatest magical power of any teacher on the planet, bar none.

This power alone is reason you should give up everything and follow me. I will help you out in this small matter – and give you a bank account you can leave your pitiful accumulation of worldly belongings so they will no longer trouble you while I show you the real deal.

What is this magical power? Are you really worthy to receive knowledge of it – for free? In the setting of mere cyber forum? I admit, I usually charge 100 pieces of gold for this. But some wave of momentary kindness has passed over me, an opening of the veil between truth and illusion. So I must oblige the Higher Powers working through me.

OK. Please prepare yourself. Relax your fingers from the tight grip you have on your mouse or keyboard. Release all thoughts and expectations; this power I have cannot be truly grasped if you are distracted by your ordinary mind’s senses.

Take a deep breath. Then release it.

The reason for enticing your Curious Monkey Mind into yet a third message room is not trivial.

All powerful things happen by three’s. It is the fundamental of both alchemy and magic.

Also, you needed a break from the mental frustration and confusion you were suffering in the second message room.

Now we are in a new space, an open space where we can communicate freely.

OK, enough foreplay. Let’s get to the main act. We have enough potential in the chi field built up that something can possibly manifest something useful from it.

MY MAIN MAGICAL POWER is that I create a “real” human body out of thin air.

This is a much greater power than the astral projectors who were stealing your chi, by arousing their curiosity to draw you into their ring of power and astral control over who you think you are or might become.

Because you assumed their power of manifestation was greater than yours, you were contemplating surrendering your life force to their Ring of Secrecy.

Guarantee you, they will never show you their Magical Power until you have surrounded yourself to them. Already Kostas has declared that western seekers are unworthy of learning from the master. Causing them to seek even harder, and believe even more firmly that he has the Magical Power and they do not.

The human body I create is not a frankensteinian clone in a glass jar.

it is the one I inhabit and use daily, my own magical human body.

Nobody else can create my body; thus I know their magical power is much less than mine.

Of course, your ordinary mind protests that this is no great secret, because six billion people have physical bodies.

But again, you skim over the surface of those bodies, and thus your own. You missed the magical power hidden in this, because it seemed so common.

Are you actually able to witness yourself in the magical act of creating your body?

By the time you’ve noticed a sensation, a thought, or a feeling, the moment is already past; you are witnessing what you already created

Observing a moment that already passed is not the same as being present and aligning your conscious will to magically create your body in this moment.

It is not something that can be seen with the outer senses.
It is not a passive act of observation or mere witnessing, even on the inner planes.

So if you are looking passively from the outside or the inside,
you have missed the magical moment already. You pretended to be detached and thus not responsible for the act of creating your own body.

It is the most comon false assumption amongst spiritual novices that God or something Other than themselves has created their body. This is mere Deification of the Unconscious, a very human trait but unfortunately a bad habit that is dangerous to one’s higher spiritual development.

Don’t be worried. There are many more magical moments of self-creation where you still have the opportunity to grasp your own magical power. Tao is quite generous that way.

Blessings on the Journey to Realizing Your Magical Power,

Michael