Qigong: Chinese Medicine or Pseudoscinece?

164 Pages·1998·23.196 MB·English

by  Lin Zixin, Guo Zhengyi

in Zixin, Yu Guo Zheng^
Li,
Slien Zhenyu, Zhang Honglin.
J
d Zhang Tongling

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Qigong

Qigong
Chinese
Medicine or
Pseudoscience?
Lin Zixin, Yu Li, Guo Ztiengyi,
Slien Zlienyu, Zliang Honglin,
and Zliang Tongling
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Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Qigong : Chinese medicine orpseudoscience / Lin Zixin ... [et al.].
p. cm.
ISBN 1-57392-232-3 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Ch'i kung. 2. Medicine, Chinese. I. Lin, Zixin.
RA781.8.Q54 1999
615.5'3—dc21 99-36666
CIP
Printed in the United States ofAmerica on acid-free paper
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.Q54
2000
Preface
1. Traditional Cliinese Medicine
and Qigong 13
Qigong and Its History 13
Basic Methods and Important Facts
About Qigong 19
Regulate the body by movement 20
Regulate breathing to cultivate Qi 27
Controlling breathing with the mind 30
Coordinating movement in
Qigong practice 35
Reciting a mantra 38
—
Proper length of breath specifically,
how does one decide the proper
length of time for one breath? 39
Speed of breathing 40
5
Contents
6
Regulate the Mind andAdjust Thought 41
Modem Scientific Investigation into Qigong Theory 49
I External Qigong 51
Its Origins and Development 51
Tl%eAnalysis of the Essence of the Effect ofExternal QigongTherapy 53
The Secret ofVan Xin's "Lectures with Qigong" 56
The External Qigong Experiment Crossing National Boundaries 59
The experimental result showed that the physical basis
of External Qigong is not credible 60
The experiment on bacteria was not repeatable 61
The truth of the experiment on External Qigong
at Hsinghua University 62
The truth of the experimental report given by Zhang Xiangyu 65
The Recognition of the Essence of Qigong 67
3. Itinerant Quackery and Qigong 73
The Truth ofMagicTricks of Pseudo-Qigong 15
Ten Diagnoses ofDiseases of "Qigong SuperAbilities" 86
Using the telephone to gather information about the patient 87
Sending disciples to seek useful information 88
Adapting oneself to the circumstances 88
Taking advantage of the opportunity when
the patient is reckless 89
Stealing the beams and pillars and replacing them
—
with rotten timber perpetrating a fraud 90
Trying to upset the patient 91
Venting anger on the patient or visitor 92
Preparing the stage 93
Exploratory talks between a Qigong crook and patient 93
—
Contents 7
4. The Debate on Human Extraordinarf Ability
vs. Qigong (Inner Rung Fu) 97
The Shift in Emphasis 97
Qigong: The Key to Opening Human Potential 102
Qigong Miracles and Special Function 104
The effect of External Qigong on living and nonliving things
(PK phenomenon in special function terminology) 105
Remote killing or control (in special function
using the power of the mind to cut or move objects) 105
Removing wsLtch needles, curving keys, moving objects,
cutting steel bands, and performing surgical operations
using mental power 106
Mind reading (thought transfer in special function) 107
Special visual abilities acquired by practicing Qigong
(seeing supernatural beings in special function) 108
Telling the future and reliving the past
(fortune-telling in special function) 109
Summoning the wind and rain (special abilities
gained by practicing Qigong 110
Smoke emanating from hands (high-level function
in special function) 111
Four Chinese Contemporary Super-Qigongists:
Van Xin, Zhang Honghao, Zhang Xiangyu, and Zhang Baosheng 112
Reports on Defrauding by Use of Qigong (Special Function) 129
Eastern Renaissance 133
5. Qigong and Ultra-deviation 137
Ultra-deviation and Its Symptoms 137