Class Teachings: Spiritual & Esoteric

• Acupuncture dolls for distance healing: Used male/female acupuncture dolls, drawing the patient's spirit into the doll to diagnose and treat at a distance. (Johnson)
• Ai Ye (mugwort), Gan Song (nardostachys/'valerian root'), kava kava, Yu Jin (turmeric), Calea zacatechichi: 'Herbs part 2' for lucid dreaming; supplements listed alongside: choline, vitamin B-5, B-6, melatonin, tryptophan, zinc, DMAE, vitamin C, amino-acid formula. (Johnson) → Gan Song, Yu Jin, Ai Ye
• Bai Hu Tang (White Tiger) / Shi Gao (gypsum): Fumigation purifies the hot hell of suicide sites; the White Tiger formula (gypsum, rice, Zhi Mu) is also used for delirium from possession. (Yuen) → Bai Hu Tang, Shi Gao
• Body elements: Flesh/bones = earth, heat = fire, blood/fluids = water, breath = air/wind; we absorb mineral, plant and animal energies through food and environmental energies through breath. (Johnson)
• Camphor, mugwort (Ai Ye), pine incense on the Daoist altar: The Daoist altar holds a lamp, two candles, tea, water, rice, five plates of fruit, and camphor, mugwort or pine incense to purify the soul until burial. (Lewis) → Ai Ye
• Camphor-wood coffins; alabaster urns; geomancy: Traditionally camphor-wood airtight coffins or alabaster urns; burial site chosen by astrology and geomancy; cremation to release hauntings, e.g. after suicide. (Lewis)
• Cedar (western flat cedar): Cedar spiritually helps us let go of what we carry inside; Lakota use much cedar in sweat lodge, preferring flat-leaf western cedar. (Cyndy)
• Center core (Taiji pole) supported by Ren, Du, Chong and Dai: The center core column (crown to perineum) holds the chakras and is supported by the Conception (Ren), Governing (Du), Thrusting (Chong) and Belt (Dai) channels. (Johnson)
• Central channel and its left/right sides: Central channel = reincarnating soul (dark blue light); left side = mother's essence, red drop, moon; right side = father's essence, white drop, sun. (Johnson)
• Central channel as antenna; three dantians as capacitors: Like the stupa's core pole, the body's central channel accumulates and transforms energy, stored in the three dantians, five yin organs and channel network. (Johnson)
• Chakra-level point pairs: Chakra-level pairs: root Ren-1/Du-1 (survival); second Ren-4 to Ren-6, Du-4, KI-13 (sexuality); Ren-8 with ST-25, KI-16; Ren-17 with KI-23, ST-17. → KI-13 Qixue, ST-25 Tianshu, KI-16 Huangshu, KI-23 Shengfeng, ST-17 Ruzhong
• Charged water for sick children: An old monk stirred water with a phurba while reciting a healing mantra and gave it to sick children as medicine. (Johnson)
• Copal: Mentioned among other herbs used in different traditions' ceremonies. (Cyndy)
• Da Zao (palm dates) / Terminalia chebula (He Zi): Daoists imprint dates with intention for healing/trauma and energizing fasting pills; Terminalia chebula is the 'king of medicines' in Tibet. (Johnson) → Da Zao, He Zi
• Deng Xin Cao (Juncus, rush pith): 'Lantern of the heart' — burned as an offering to show light to the deceased, or sprinkled at an accident scene. (Yuen) → Deng Xin Cao
• Dragon and tiger cavities (Laogong, PC-8): Build heat in the lower dantian, exhale it down the inner arms to the palm centers (PC-8), inhale it back along the outer arms to the dantian. (Johnson) → PC-8 Laogong, KI-1 Yongquan
• Egg reading (limpia) and candle-wick body diagnosis: A fresh egg rubbed over the body is cracked into water and read; in candle reading the wick is the person, and bumps or flickers show problem areas. (Beery)
• Eight energetic touches: First-level energetic touches: expansion, contraction, heaviness, lightness, vibration, itching (nerves regrowing in old injuries); second level: flashes of light and color. (Johnson)
• Energy ball for organs: Imprinted energy ball can be inserted to strengthen ailing kidneys or dissolve toxicity. (Johnson)
• Epilepsy and spirits: Teacher's view: most epilepsy is spirit-induced, ~10% chemical — he'd first take a child to a qigong doctor for clearing. (Johnson)
• Five elements' energetic functions: Earth binds pattern and form; water fuses and reflects heaven (mind) within form; fire increases radiant life force; air activates/brings to life; space fuses creation into universal consciousness. (Johnson)
• Five-element finger mantra (Om A Ra Pa Sa Na Di): Om A Ra Pa Sa Na Di: each syllable/finger is an element (Ra fire, Pa water, Sa air, Na earth); commands the elements to reveal elementals, ghosts, planetary spirits. (Johnson)
• Five-element lotus hand energy ball: Form an energy ball in the lower dantian, raise it to the chest and open the hands as a lotus, each finger an element, absorbing colors, directions and planets. (Johnson)
• Four Gates / Five Gates (Laogong, Yongquan, Baihui): 'Four gates' are palm and sole centers (PC-8, KI-1), 'five gates' add Du-20 — where life force can escape; seal them in meditation after purifying. (Johnson) → PC-8 Laogong, KI-1 Yongquan, DU-20 Baihui
• Fu Zi (aconite/monkshood), fennel: Warming yang herbs like Fu Zi are fumigated or steamed for the 'cold hell'; fennel (Xiao Hui Xiang) is sprayed around the house. (Yuen)
• Heal the thyroid before inner-fire practice: With thyroid problems, heal the thyroid first; specific sounds can help but need an individual diagnosis. (Johnson)
• Healing sounds and colors (medical qigong rule): Beginners only exhale the sound and inhale the color; inhaling both over-tonifies and creates excess; allowed after the second year. (Johnson)
• Herb-soaked talisman paper: Original talisman paper was soaked in herbs for their energetic properties before activation rituals. (Johnson)
• Herbs for lucid dreaming (list): Herbs for lucid dreams include angelica, basil, cardamom, cinnamon, coltsfoot, hibiscus, honeysuckle, jasmine flower, licorice root, marigold, mimosa, mugwort and turmeric. (Johnson)
• Holy water (108 repetitions): Speak the prayer into water 108 times while visualizing radiance; used for possession, imprinting tools and protecting children. (Johnson)
• Horizontal 'chakra' levels: ankles, knees, hips/groin, Ren-1, Ren-8, Ren-12, Ren-15, Ren-17, Ren-22, Yintang, Du-20: Levels where repression shows as tightness/symptoms; treat with Ren and Du points at that level plus Chong (KI/ST channel) points, and inner/outer bladder line points. → REN-1 Huiyin, REN-8 Shenque, REN-12 Zhongwan, REN-15 Jiuwei, REN-17 Shanzhong, REN-22 Tiantu, DU-20 Baihui
• Imprinting herbal pills (Xi Yuan Hospital, Beijing 1993): Students were taught to imprint patients' herbal pill jars with divine light, sound and incantation so the medicine helps them heal faster. (Johnson)
• Incense: A Wei (asafoetida), Xuan Shen (Scrophularia), Tan Xiang (sandalwood), Chen Xiang: Ritual incense with eight candles (bagua): A Wei and Xuan Shen 'the mysterious root' invoke the spirit; sandalwood or aquilaria draws from heaven. (Yuen) → Chen Xiang, Xuan Shen, Tan Xiang, A Wei
• Inner fire: fists in the inguinal crease: Press fists into the inguinal creases (thumbs at base of middle fingers) to stimulate femoral artery flow and increase heat during fast breathing. (Johnson)
• Local herbs and imprinting (Dr. Hu / Dr. Yao): Study the herbs and minerals where you live, since illness by the ocean differs from the mountains; prayer imprinting shifts an herb's energetic structure. (Johnson)
• Lotus as embryology: Daoist energetic embryology: lotus bulb = kidneys, stem = spinal column, flower = brain. (Johnson)
• Lung purging (Shang sound): Amplify purging sounds by matching inner and outer vibration; teaching patients healing sounds sets their practice in motion. (Johnson)
• Mantra sounds by body region (front/back): Ah at the Du-14 area, Hum heart through to back, So navel to Mingmen, Ha front of perineum, Ma coccyx; mapped on the hand like a microsystem. (Johnson) → DU-14 Dazhui, DU-4 Mingmen
• Mantra sounds like herbal formulas: Sound patterns are prescribed like an herbal formula — same 'herbs', different proportions per person's constitution. (Johnson)
• Medical qigong tonify/purge: Deficiency: fill with energy to tonify immunity; excess: purge/dissolve; holding sound vibration in an area breaks up turbidity and stagnation. (Johnson)
• Om-Ah-Hum light colors: Om = white light at the crown, Ah = red at the throat, Hum = deep blue at the heart; said to purify vessels and channels so blood, qi and spirit flow. (Johnson)
• Seaweed / sea salt: Softens hardness/kidneys (abuse of power) — burned/fumigated to clear ghosts attached to property (first hell). (Yuen)
• Smudge bowl — four elements: Shell (water), herbs (earth), fire (wooden match), feather (air — here a red-tailed hawk tail feather). (Cyndy)
• Spirit of the plant in herbal formulas: Healing comes from connecting with the spirit overseeing the plant and its water; traditional formula songs invoked those plant spirits while mixing. (Johnson)
• ST-9 Renying: At the throat chakra — integrity of communication and expression; linked to empathy vs poor boundaries in split ego states. → ST-9 Renying
• Sweetgrass: Sweetgrass is braided while still attached to the earth with prayers; sage transforms space, cedar transforms within, sweetgrass fills the space. (Cyndy)
• Three dantians and wei qi fields: Lower dantian governs the wei qi field about an inch from the body, middle 1-2 feet, upper several feet. (Johnson)
• Upper and lower three: Upper dantian's three (two eyes and third eye) point to heaven like fire; navel, Mingmen and perineum point to earth like water — alchemy mixes them. (Johnson) → DU-4 Mingmen, REN-1 Huiyin, REN-8 Shenque
• White mustard seed: Casting white mustard seed activates protective power like armor; it is one of the eight auspicious substances, used in fire rituals against negativity. (Johnson)
• White sage (California) — smudge: Used in smudge ceremony to transform/clear the space; California white sage preferred for its aroma (not culinary sage); desert sages also used. (Cyndy)