3 Secrets about the stars

Ponder three secrets about the stars;

1. Twinkling stars in night sky are time travellers

Starlight takes a long period of time to travel to us.  Yet we perceive stars in the night sky and are taught to assume this light is itself viewed in the present.  In truth, detecting starlight with physical eyes is actually viewing the past from a different vantage point.  This helps you begin to get your head around the notion that past, present and future exist together.  It is our focal point of attention that determines what vibration we feel, what reality we are aware of.

2. Time management only works below the belt

Our true existence, Spirit, exists beyond time and space,beyond the cosmos as the human mind is taught to understand it. The body is subject to time and space, and is subject to stress and time management until self-mastery shifts priorities to being. As above so below, so within, as without. So on one level, we are subject to time and space; on another level, we are unable to ground completely time and space.  Our level of consciousness and filters determine the view.

3. The universal mind is the all-seeing eye

Humans are widely taught to reach the stars and also often forget that we are really made of stardust! Thus, there is no thing which you cannot solve. To focus the meditative mind is to naturally tunes into the universal mind.  Everything in this universe is subject to the universal mind as everything emerges from and vanishes back into it. Yet, who develops or opens to the universal mind? So logically, biologically, psychologically, we have to be in time and space and discover or awaken to awareness that we are above time and space. We have to understand these two polarities of our personality, and train the mind to consciously shift frequency along the radio dial within ourselves.

4 Questions from Stephen R. Covey

Everyone has access to the exact same wisdom within themselves. What differs is the pace and path taken to open our eyes, wake up, expand perception, shift to do and be what matters most.

It is said that everyone is lost until they grow aware and tap into that special something that naturally allows joy to flow within. Focusing here on this thing consistently, aligning thoughts, words and actions with this is the key to existence.  Yet, how can one really know what this is?

Take a moment to reflect on who inspires, guides you to grow more intimate with yourself.

Perhaps Stephen R. Covey is one inspirational mentor who jumps into mind. Renowned leadership authority, family expert, teacher, organizational consultant, and co-founder of FranklinCovey Co., he is author of several international bestsellers.  He was a master teacher because he was first a master student. 

Dialogue, interactions and relationships created his school of life without walls.  He admitted he never presented new concepts but succinctly put information together and synthesized it for people. His books include The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Powerful Lessons in Personal Change) & The 8th Habit (From Effectiveness to Greatness) and First Things First.

In a book called A Time Conscious Life,  a compilation of his insights, four questions stand out:

*What questions can you ask yourself to keep learning (&/or unlearning or letting go)?
*What knowledge can you gain by asking the right questions?
*What life changes can you make by embracing the knowledge you discover?
*What discipline is needed to make those changes part of your true character?

Allow yourself to surrender, feel the way into the next chapter of your life.  When you stop fighting yourself,  and listen to the heart, you soon realize so much more than what you think exists and beckons you to branch out.  Go ahead-expand into more of your gifts and true genius.

Interview with Adam Gokmen

Adam Gokmen is a Universal Tao Healing Instructor,  Healing Tao Australia manager and national coordinator for diverse healing events.  He brings Professor William U.Wei, Grand Master Mantak Chia in for extended workshops.  He invites instructors of healing arts and other serious students to develop or update their skills and spiritual practices in different areas.

I connect with Adam after reading books by Mantak Chia and William U. Wei, and discover colleagues have attended some of their training events. Its exciting to offer glimpses of ways to explore subtle energies, see universal philosophies are gaining momentum and taking root.

Thanks Adam for taking time-out to share some insights.

Which life events prompted you to develop an interest in Tao healing practices? 

Coming from kung fu martial arts background, i could relate to the eastern practices. My kung fu style had a number of internal practices.  As i was advancing in them, i got onto master chia's books to fine tune my practices and help me correct and guide my chi energy more efficiently.

Notable is how frequently martial arts students shift and recognize connections between streams. Aikido and Qigong introduced me to unifying with life energy and were also the stepping stones to explore other eastern traditions and practices.

What prompted you to switch from kung fu and become a Tao Healing Instructor? 

After 6 years of reading all master chia's books and self-teaching myself, i knew it was time to go over to train and get certified by the grand master as my vision was to do so and then bring the Universal Healing Tao system to Australia were we can have access to the wealth and power of the ancient taoist practices made simply to follow and practice by master chia.

Good on you for actualizing that vision to deepen self-understanding and also to serve and empower others.  How has this process affected or changed you?

Qigong, inner alchemy, tai chi and other powerful practices (Tibetan and Indian) are what i have practised.This has changed my life in many ways; my energy and internal strength, work & business, the  different ways one views life and balances me emotionally and spiritually.

Just as the 2Cellos I Will Wait , it is like we are each inviting the experience heaven within (and on Earth) at our own pace, though whatever we are intuitively drawn to create.

This said, its common for martial arts teachers to have muliple income streams, or, to teach healing arts part-time and generate income from other activities.  Do you notice a trend to balance more than one holistic job or healing practice?

  As The Tao is limitless, never closed- or single-minded, same goes with different practices.  We believe you can get the goodness out of all the holistic arts and practices, what works for one may be opposite or different for others as we are all different internally. At the end of the day, its all the same energy and force were working with.

Many people relate to Bruce Lee who viewed himself as an ambassador of chinese martial arts. He offered lectures about the wisdom of masters.  In  A Warrior's Journey, Lee explains "water is the softest substance in the world yet it can penetrate the hardest...water also is insubstantial, you cannot grasp water, cannot punch or hurt it every martial artist is aiming to be like that, soft like water an adapt himself to his opponent."  A warriors journey explains the states martial artists goes through in evolution from ignorance to enlightenment. Bruce Lee echoes, The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering. What is the taoist view?

Taoists believe there is an intelligent, guiding force, Tao, permeating the universe. Taoism is a natural philosophy more than a religion, and one that cultivates a keen awareness of the cycles and forces of nature, as well as its myriad and nuanced interrelationships. In Taoism, the forces of the world and those within us are an expression of the binary opposites called yin and yang. Cultivating a clear and empty mind and a body that moves like water are the goals of practice. Indeed, in a very real sense, Taoists worship water as the ultimate example of precisely the spontaneous, relaxed quality they want to see in themselves.

As the world is expanding consciousness, the West is seeing an influx of Eastern healing teachings and related wisdom.  Some say it is part of a process of integration. What stands out to you about Healing Tao Australia? 

The universal healing tao system is a practical system of self-development that enables people to complete the harmonious evolution of there physical, mental and spiritual bodies through a series of ancient Chinese meditative and internal energy excises. Not many ‘systems’ can offer this, as were working with real energies ( internal and external we know its real , we know there’s a force there and we can FEEL it.

Why not get involved in another martial art or healing practice?

Intuition. Our vision is to give the concept of the Tao creating the desire to manifest and practice the Tao in those students who are sincere, humble and deserving to practice the Tao. The humble can only perceive the truth and the truth will set you free. These four practices below will open up your Emotional, Physical, Mental, Energetic- Spiritual bodies if you are wisdom enough to practice them.

Tell us about different styles of tai chi.  
 
There are hundreds of tai chi forms. Master chia put many forms into just a handful to cover most yin and yang elements. His books illustrate tai chi literally means Yin & Yang energy (Duality).

Why are people drawn to this practice? 

The energetic purpose of tai chi is cultivate the qi or life energy within so it flows smoothly and powerfully through the body.  People are drawn to what they are ready for.  Sometimes people are sick and wish to get well.  Other times people are well and wish to sustain or build on this. Different forms of exercise maintain strength, flexibility, and balance.  Different tai chi forms are all versions of meditation in motion. Meditation is a process of re-balancing that goes on.

Right! It is like a conscious re-calibration or shift in vibration when one feels things energetically.

So, while walking through parks, its increasingly common to see older people practicing Qigong alone or in groups. People also gather outside in cities.  Where is it most natural to practice? 

Outdoors in nature is more energetic, but as your energy gets more refined and strong, it doesn’t matter where you practice.  You will feel the energy inside of you spinning and flowing through your meridians and channels.  Inside is your temple, your cave, your universe, so that’s when you can feel one with the great force. I started outside for the first year of my practices.  Now. I can do it anywhere, any time and for as long or short as I wish.
 
Tai chi and Qigong offer many mental and physical benefits.  Tell us about those and share some examples you have witnessed as an instructor.
 
Seeing students more balanced, more healthy and with more chi is most rewarding, turning tired depleted eyes into bright strong balanced energy windows and unbalanced organs clogged up in emotions into energy centres that produce and store energy is the way.  Some examples include; better mood, with lower levels of depression, stress, and anxiety. greater aerobic capacity and muscle strength. more energy and stamina. enhanced flexibility, balance, and agility.

In a similar light, Harvard Medical School Women's Health Watch offers a thorough article on tai chi benefits. 

 What kind of connection do you see between Tao healing practices and promoting immortality? (reintegrating this idea from possibility to reality into our conscious awareness)

The Immortal Tao is the Highest Inner Alchemy Practice in the Universal Healing Tao System. This is the process of transforming the Physical Body into the Spirit Body. It is a steam process of transformation from the physical form into the spirit form. Once this is completed you can materialize and dematerialize at will, having the ability to travel beyond time and space moving beyond the North Star (Center of our Galaxy) and breaking the Karmic Wheel so you never have to come back into time and space.  The Immortal UHT practices are broken down into Two Levels. The First Level is the Kan & Li Meditations: the Kan & Li (Water & Fire) meditations of Lesser Kan & Li Enlightenment (Cauldron at the Navel), Greater Kan & Li Enlightenment (Cauldron at the Solar Plexus), and Greatest Kan & Li Enlightenment (Cauldron at the Heart). The Second Level is the Sealing of the Five Senses (Cauldron at the Crystal Room), Congress of Heaven and Earth, and the Reunion of Heaven and Man.

What are some changes you notice in yourself (energy, perception, behaviour) as the result of practicing Tao healing arts? How long have you been practicing?  

The benefits there’s to many to list. more internal energy and stronger organs and kidney energy, also slowing down the aging process are all benefits I have personally experienced with balancing my emotional state and opening channels to the higher plane and receiving and sharing energies. I have been doing Qigong for 17 years and the secret is to do just a little bit every day, give yourself 10 -15 mins a day.

Do you see a link between the length of time you practice consistently and the nature of awakening or expanding perception?

As were going deep and changing our DNA through inner alchemy practices we are constantly changing and shifting, perception, behaviour and realisation are shifting to higher planes while securing your love and respect and connection with mother earth.

If you had a piece of advice, something to offer, what would it be?
 
At the start of my practices I was full of questions always constantly asking for external help and support (which is good when your starting off) but I learnt through the years if you just look within and close the monkey mind off (ego) and connect with you true self (consciousness).  All the answers are here and they become available to you to use and learn from. Once you connect with the universe and earth energies you download wisdom, intuition, and power to strengthen your soul and sprit bodies. Trust in yourself, trust in the great force (tao) and feel and watch your life transform. To do this you need to practice , it doesn’t just come from wishful thinking you have to do the hard work and push through the barriers and obstacles like that saying ‘see the light at the end of the tunnel’ well with the tao we can see and feel that light anytime you just have to make that conscious decision when you want to activate it and feel it in this life time. Only through training in meditation can we still our minds to make conscious choices which is not only beneficial to yourself but also others because we are the whole and what affects us affects others. We are the most helpless creatures on the planet when we are born and have to be taught and learn to do everything. By training in the UHT practices, you start to rediscovery what you already know but are not conscious of it. Taoist practices give you time to become conscious. Freedom is the right to became without infringing or hindering anyone else’ right to become. Everyone has a right to be; that is our free will, which is our Divinity. With Freedom we take on great responsibilities for ourselves and our actions. The greatest freedom is discipline. In order to accomplish everything in life you need to focus and discipline yourself to achieve it and without discipline it will never happen. The Tao with its practices teaches you spiritual independence, which is not to be depend on anyone else, or thing for your existence and evolution. It takes great courage to be free and to experience consciously your freedom being divine. You let go of all your conditioning, institutionalization and physical limitation to be free and self-sufficient. All the bodies are just levels of consciousness.

Know that in the tao we are our own healers, own gurus, own doctors, own psychologist and own masters!

Its significant to notice Master Chia is widely respected for his sharing and teaching healing Tao work. As you say, all who are drawn to masters are seeing reflections of what is dormant in themselves.  We each invite ourselves to accept and actualize all we are. All roads lead to Rome. Thank you for offering some insight into what draws you to awaken and share reflections.

Please share any event updates.

We have an upcoming Chi Nei Tsang Workshop in Brisbane, and events with William U.Wei and Master Chia on the horizon.  For more infomation on future events & seminars in Australia please see www.healingtaoaustralia.com/events 

Interview with William U. Wei

It may surprise you to hear that books mysteriously appear to me on library and bookstore shelves or enter my life in other unexpected ways. Such events are signals from the universe of a readiness for new growth, a reminder every action taken has more than one purpose, and layers of motivation are revealed with perfect timing. 

While engaged in spiritual practices, like Tai Chi & Qigong, one book that appeared to me was Sealing of the Five Senses: Advanced Practices for Becoming a Taoist Immortal by Mantak Chia and William U. Wei.  Tuning in to this led to discovering other books by the same authors, including the most recent, The Tao of Immortality. The true impact is immeasurable.

Ancient teachings enter our lives when we are ready for deeper awakening, to grow conscious of and access core knowing that is ever-present.  Thus, this interview is offered as Soulful insight.  

Please share a bit about yourself and how you connected with Master Chia. 

William U. Wei also known as Wei Tzu (and The Professor).  This pen name for this instructor allows anonymity and continuing to become a blade of grass in a field.

Its like we grow into our names to give them meaning and detach to view self not as personal, but rather, as a vessel to allow universal energy to flow.  This awakening involves losing what one thinks is important in order to merge with what truly is. Ego death is a "complete loss of subjective self-identity", or key shift of focal point.

Being has no form, no name. To stabilize in that beingness gives access all knowledge.

Please expand on the Professor's background. 

The Professor was born after World War I, growing up in the Midwestern United States. In 1984, this student of the Tao started studying directly under Master Mantak Chia.  In August 1993, became a Senior Instructor of the Universal Healing Tao. He specialized in one-on-one training to over 500 students. In December 1994, after liquidating all his US assets, this Senior Instructor moved to Tao Garden, Thailand, and assisted Master Mantak Chia in building Tao Garden Taoist Training Center.  During the next six years, this student of the Tao traveled to over 30 countries teaching with Master Mantak Chia and serving as Marketing and Construction Coordinator for the Tao Garden.

What stands out is feeling the truth prompts instant shifts in priorities.  That feels like true dedication to the Universal Healing Tao. Mark Twain echos the two most important days in life are the day one is born and day one discovers why.

Precisely. When ego is no longer directing action, Soul is consciously guiding it.  After ten years finally coming out from his Southern Oregon Mountain Retreat Sanctuary, the Professor has agreed to teach all the instructor techniques on the Basic UHT (I-III), Iron Shirt (I-III), and Kan & Li (I-III) practices learn directly from Master Mantak Chia.  The instructors and serious students will learn all technical aspects of the formulas directly from the Universal Healing Tao books, why we practice the formulas and how to properly practice and teach the formulas to the students so they will continue to practice them. This information comes from over thirty years of daily practice after personally taking over 600 of Master Chia’s Workshops and teaching over 500 individual students and over 5,000 students in group workshops while teaching on tour with Master Chia from 1994 through 2000.

What led to collaborating on Tao Healing books? 

Upon completion of Tao Garden in December 1998, the Professor became Project Manager (winters) for Universal Tao Publications’ books and products (coordinating the completion of an additional 48 book titles). With the purchase of a mountain having four waterfalls in Southern Oregon, USA (6/15/1998), this practitioner is presently (summers) completing a Taoist Mountain Sanctuary for personal cultivation, Higher Level Immortal Tao practices and ascension. 

Through this process acting as Universal Healing Tao Publications’ Project Manager, the Professor has managed the formatting, layout, coordinating, editing and writing the completion of 60 Universal Healing Tao Books with another fifteen books to go to complete the Universal Healing Tao System.

The Professor also personally wrote out the over 240 formulas from the Universal Healing Tao books into the Chi Cards format (Six Decks of twenty cards each on 3x5 cards) for his personal practice and teaching his fellow students and for their daily practices as well.

Which books has 'The Professor' co-wrote with Master Chia?

This student of the Tao is the co-author of twelve Universal Healing Tao books with Master Chia as follows: Living in the Tao, Sexual Reflexology, Cosmic Detox, Cosmic Astrology, Cosmic Nutrition, Emerald River, Universal Healing Tao Formulas I, Prostate Chi Kung, Uterus Chi Kung, Chi Nei Ching, Multi-Orgasmic Teen, Sealing of the Five Senses, The Tao of Immortality and co-creator of the Universal Healing Tao Formula Cards, Chi Cards (6 sets of over 240 formulas) with Master Mantak Chia under the pen name the “The Professor - Master of Nothingness”, the Myth that takes the Mystery out of Mysticism.

These books reveal feeling one's way into harmony with Source Energy is an awakening process. Chinese philosophers echo all experience inward and outward is the product of two opposing principles: Yin and Yang (female and male, dark and light, receptive and creative)  One way to harmonize these forces is through directed activity. Tai Chi and Chi Kung are powerful activities used to balance yin- yang and vital force (chi.)  

Please offer insight into other projects in progress.

The Professor is also presently working on the future UHT books with Master Chia as follows: Universal Healing Tao Formulas II”(Book II of the Chi Cards), Ending into the Beginning (personal ascension book) and an additional 6 sets of Chi Cards with over 240 formulas with Master Mantak Chia in completing the Universal Healing Tao System.

Chi-Nei-Tsang-Microcurrent-Therapy is another Mantak Chia project in the works to be released in August 2018 with co-author Aisha Sieburth. This is another example of bringing energy insights into the present to be made available for those who are ready to take their experience to new levels of expansion.

For anyone not yet familiar with Tai Chi & Chi Kung, share how this practice stimulates expansion of consciousness and immortality. How does it relate to energy fields, bringing more light in? 

The Tao of Immortality reveals that Tai Chi, which literally means Yin & Yang (Duality), is just a small but important part of the UHT practices leading to Conscious Immortality. This is Tai Chi Chi Kung not Tai Chi that is just a form of movement. The added Chi Kung means working the internal energy as you are moving in the form implementing the Iron Shirt I (Structural Alignment and Rooting to the Earth Force and being pulled by the Heaven Forces) and Iron Short II (Whip Movement, Chi Pressure and Tendon Power). This is a simple Yang Style Form with Thirteen Movements in Four Directions starting in the North moving counterclockwise 360 degrees then clockwise 360 degrees to the original position.

How does this affect cellular memory?

Once you learn the form, which is the ten thousand-practice rule (You do it 10,000 times), you know it completely activating your molecular memory. Then you do not know if you did it or if you did not do it because it has become a meditation and has become a part of you.  You have built up a complete defense system energetically through its practice with the postures and strikes (Ward Off, Rollback, Press, Push, Single Whip & Single Hand Push) with your muscle memory.

This reminds us that humans cannot express non-physical dimensions logically. Much like the Universal Tao practice shifts energy, Sadhguru explains our perception can be expanded beyond the physical when the focal point shifts from lower chakras to see through the Third eye.  This is about allowing energy to flow from a limited perception to receive and process energy from a higher vantage point, where expanded life experience comes as the result new clarity. 

One can be intellectually-realized without being experientially realized. Many paths exist to go from limited to more expanded awareness.

Why do so many people speak of peace as the end point?

Only when all methods are dropped does ecstasy happen. From here to here, there is no journey. 

More and more people are interested in astral travel. Those engaging in out-of -body experience (OBE) and astral travel are eager to hear more about this in terms of Ying-Yang and an analogy. 

Through your daily practice you have incorporated the form into your energy body and when you leave the physical body (Ascension) you take the form (Postures and Strikes) with you to the next plane. You have formed your Energetic Yang Body (Dense Spaceship) to travel in the realms of Infinity as opposed to a Yin Body (Astral Travel). It is like a baby (Yin Body) going into the jungle (Infinite Space) or a Yang Body (Armored Tank) going into the jungle.  There are big tigers in the jungle; so, would you rather be a baby or a tank in the jungle?  Every time you do your practice (Fusion/Spinning Pakuas & Tai Chi/Strikes) you are building your energetic tank and its energetic defense system for safe travel into the great beyond.

Its interesting that different cultures have different afterlife ceremonies, different preparations for travelling to and and for visions of residing in other worlds.  Those who know Near Death Experiences (NDEs) also gain insight into the energetic journey. 

Still, immortality remains a mystery to many. Different cultural groups and religions suggest it is something to work toward or earn through experience in this life for the next life. Still other teachers, such as yogis, monks, fakirs, echo other perspectives. How is your view of immortality changing through your practice of Taoist Meditation and other healing arts?

The Immortal Tao is the Highest Inner Alchemy Practice in the Universal Healing Tao System. This is the process of transforming the Physical Body into the Spirit Body. It is a steam process of transformation from the physical form into the spirit form.

Some people also describe this as evolution of the carbon-based body into a crystal or light body.

Once this is completed, you can materialize and dematerialize at will, having the ability to travel beyond time and space moving beyond the North Star (Center of our Galaxy) and breaking the Karmic Wheel so you never have to come back into time and space. 

That said, some beings do choose to return to this world of time and space as Masters or other teachers. Please expand on specific Immortal UHT practices.

The Immortal UHT practices are broken down into Two Levels. The First Level is the Kan & Li Meditations: the Kan & Li (Water & Fire) meditations of Lesser Kan & Li Enlightenment (Cauldron at the Navel), Greater Kan & Li Enlightenment (Cauldron at the Solar Plexus), and Greatest Kan & Li Enlightenment (Cauldron at the Heart). The Second Level is the Sealing of the Five Senses (Cauldron at the Crystal Room), Congress of Heaven and Earth, and the Reunion of Heaven and Man.

You have co-authored a number of books with Mantak Chia. Why is the time ripe to write and release: The Tao of Immortality? 

In today’s Global Society, people have lost sense of morality, respect for life or decency with the senseless killing and wars. They have lost their way. All spiritual paths seek the natural flow of the universe, the Tao. The Tao is one of balance and harmony with everything in the universe. Taoism is a real practice of body, mind and spirit. Not just a philosophy of mind only. When we have the true sense of its meaning, the true knowledge and wisdom, we will be able to make the right decisions in our lives. All spiritual goals lead to the truth of the universe. The Tao is the study of the technology of how to seek the truth of the universe, nature and humans. Its focus goes beyond any one single path or viewpoint. The Tao is not a religion and requires no initiations or ceremonies. The Tao is the outcome of all religions, while it leaves them behind just like the clothing of different seasons and different places. The Tao is the goal of serious science, but it leaves behind all sciences as partial and temporal descriptions of the integral truth.

What is special about advanced Taoist teachings?

Advanced Taoist teachings are like a master key that unlocks all doors. Taoism includes all religious subjects, yet its breadth and depth go far beyond the limits of religious devotion. The teachings of the Tao assist people in their lives like religions do; yet the Tao transcends all religions while still containing their essence. Taoism explains or demonstrates the truth directly, not on the emotional, thought or belief level. It leaves no room for skepticism or endless searching. Philosophy, science and religions all contain a part of the universal truth, the Tao. The Tao reflects the center of the ultimate truth (you) and helps you to reach it for yourself. Through the practices of the Universal Healing Tao System you will discover the Tao within yourself and our way back to peace and harmony with a Global Consciousness Transformation which is the only way to solve the upheaval on the planet today.

The book presents 5 infant spirits that exist within every human being and also states, “you want your infant spirits to gain wisdom and that is something that cannot be attained in school. Wisdom is only acquired in the stars. Your goal then is for your collective spirit and soul to become educated, grow up, and recognize your oneness with the universe.”

What advice do you offer souls who come to Earth never consciously disconnecting from this oneness of the universe, but struggle to ground? Their goal seems to be to grow downward. 

Only through training in meditation can we still our minds to make conscious choices which is not only beneficial to yourself but also others because we are the whole and what affects us affects others. At birth, we are the most helpless creatures on the planet and have to be taught to learn and remember everything.

How do UHT practices facilitate expanding consciousness?

By training in the UHT practices, you start to rediscovery what you already know but are not conscious of it. Taoist practices give you time to become conscious. Freedom is the right to became without infringing or hindering anyone else’ right to become. Everyone has a right to be; that is our free will, which is our Divinity. With Freedom we take on great responsibilities for ourselves and our actions. The greatest freedom is discipline. In order to accomplish everything in life you need to focus and discipline yourself to achieve it and without discipline it will never happen. The Tao with its practices teaches you spiritual independence, which is not to be depend on anyone else, or thing for your existence and evolution. It takes great courage to be free and to experience consciously your freedom being divine. You let go of all your conditioning, institutionalization and physical limitation to be free and self-sufficient. All the bodies are just levels of consciousness.

This new book talks about nine levels of alchemy. What relationship do you see of these levels have with the first 9 chakras? How is the process of cleansing and purifying the chakras related to working and ascending through the nine levels of alchemy? 

This is just in that area with the chakras. The Taoist focus on the five vital organs, three minds & three bodies for the nine levels of alchemy. You can achieve the Tao alone (all-one) with the universe but with the proper instruction the instructor will give you the Taoist concepts, guidelines (formulas) and feedback sharing their personal experiences with the formulas to give you direction for your own self-discovery in the Tao.

Why is having a teacher important? Why can one not do this properly alone?

Feedback is important and makes all the difference in world to one who sincere and deserving which is the way the Tao was traditional presented and taught.

How does the Universal Healing Tao system relate to other healing modalities?

Our vision is to give the concept of the Tao creating the desire to manifest and practice the Tao in those students who are sincere, humble and deserving to practice the Tao. The humble can only perceive the truth and the truth will set you free. These four practices below will open up your Emotional, Physical, Energetic and Spiritual bodies if you are wisdom enough to practice them.

In the West, the Tao healing practices are used by people diagnosed with different illnesses as part of a healing regimen. Which practices can you suggest to feel and balance inner energy?

Four practices are detailed here; Inner Smile, Cosmic Detox, Chi Nei Tsang and Taoist Cosmic Healing-

Inner Smile: The first step in this Inner Alchemy process is to feel the internal energy. The only way to understand the Tao is to feel it inside yourself. You need to feel the internal energy before you can cultivate it. Through the Inner Smile Formula, you literally get in touch mentally with your five vital organs and related-organs (Functional Channel - Front Line), digestive tract (Digestive Channel - Middle Line) and your crown and spinal cord (Governor Channel - Back Line) by using your eyes and smiling down each line connecting with each part of your body.  By doing this on a daily basis you will start to develop a personal relationship with yourself on the physical, emotional, mental and energetic (spiritual) levels. By using the autonomic nervous system internally through your eyes with a para-sympathetic (positive) response you create a good feeling of love in your body.  Your heart generates this smiling energy when you focus your eyes into your heart with positive thoughts. When you smile down your body, your body will respond with positive loving energy.  This is how we learn to generate love within ourselves instead taking it from others; the abundance of that love within us will spread to others energetically across time and space without trying to give love to anyone. It is like greeting someone with a hand shake, hug or smile: they will respond the same, except now you do it internally to all your internal body parts and you feel relaxed, calm and at peace.  By doing so you have created the proper internal environment to proceed with the next step in cultivating your internal energy in a systemic pattern. You always start each following formula with the Inner Smile creating the proper environment for your internal transformation; this is always the first step of your daily practice.

This Inner Smile practice you recommend resonates.  Its benefits are also backed up by Dr. Isha Gupta, a neurologist from IGEA Brain and Spine who explains a smile initiates a chemical reaction in the brain, releasing certain horomes including dopamine and seratonin.  "Dopamine increases our feelings of happienss.  Seratonin release is associated with reduced stress.  Low levels of  seratonin are associated with depression and aggression.  Low levels of dopamine are also associated with depression." (cited from Gaiam tv special on 'You Are the Medicine' -Psychedlica, April 2018) 

Cosmic Detox: In our modern world we live (awake & sleeping) in unnatural environments with artificial lighting, commercialized homes, drinking chemically charged water, and eating commercialized foods, which causes severe and fatal conditions in our bodies that are not natural to our body internally. The process starts from birth to our graves as we are exposed to these artificial environments consuming artificial foods, air and water, which block our nine openings (mouth, anus, genitals, two eyes, two ears, two nostrils) and the largest organ (skin) of the body. As we get older the toxins (poisons) continue to multiply causing insurmountable blockages in our bodies if we do not periodically clean them out with systematic techniques to maintain our health and longevity. Through the Cosmic Detox formulas (Colonics, Cell, Eye & Rectal Cleanses, Liver, Gall Bladder & Kidney Flushes, Facial Sponge Washing, Sexual & Chi Self-Massages, Nasal Douching, Dry Skin Brushing & Solar Bathing) and proper diet you can begin to release blockages. Without daily and periodic practice or living in natural environment 24 hours a day and 7 days a week the toxins will again build up and further wear out the body which is your temple where you do all your Inner Alchemy practices. We need to develop a systematic process to clean and clear out the built up toxins in our bodies or we will drown in them. Without unblocked openings in our bodies we will not have complete success with our Inner Alchemy practices because we are dealing with very subtle energy in those practices, which these blockages affect dramatically. With Cosmic Detox formulas this can be accomplished depending on the severity and maintained over our lifetime.

Chi Nei Tsang: In the rivers of the forest, leaves of the tree branches fall into the water clogging it up at the bends of the river.  When they stop the flow of the river stagnation sets up in the river and a new organism forms called a swamp. The same happens in our body with the energy channels (rivers). They become blocked with debris (toxins) and form a new organism called cancer when stagnation happens.  The Chi Nei Tsang formulas are a hands-on application to manually remove any branches (debris) from your energy rivers (energy channels, lines and meridians). Through the Chi Nei Tsang Internal Organ Massage techniques (Healing Hands Meditation, Fanning, Venting, Flushing, Opening and Chasing the Wind Gates and Winds) the practitioner activates and opens the channels and energy lines releasing the Sick Energy and Winds. The Chi Nei Tsang formulas (Navel Diagnosis & Release, Skin & Intestines Detoxify, Organ (Diaphragm, Lungs, Liver, Pancreas, Spleen, Heart, Kidneys, Lymph System, Psoas Muscle, Nerves, Ovaries and Prostate) detoxify the whole body removing the blockages one at a time over a period of time depending on the extent of the stagnation. Common aliments (Headaches, Leg Pain (Sciatic Nerve) and Pulse Balancing) are also healed by these formulas and healing is further attained by the Tree Chi Kung formulas (Tree Palming on Yin & Yang Sides) using nature’s Immortal Healers. You will learn how to diagnosis your body and its toxic levels and obstructions and stress from the inside out through the assistance of the CNT practitioner with periodic sessions and how to maintain your body’s balance with your daily hands on practice.  This is a safe, practical way to connect physically with and balance your body on a daily basis using these simple healing hands-on techniques to open up, release and detoxify your body for health and longevity.

Taoist Cosmic Healing: To connect with the energy channels we need to open them up consciously in the body. Through the Universal Healing Tao techniques (Bone Marrow Washing, Earth & Heaven Channeling, Tiger Mouth and Open Index Finger) we activate these energy lines, channels and meridians. This opens up our body to our consciousness.  These Cosmic Healing techniques will assist you in connecting with your vital organs consciously to grow and experience the internal energy while healing your body. Through the Cosmic Chi Kung formulas (Grabbing the Moon, Bridge & Regulator Channels, Yin (Functional) & Yang (Governing) Channels and Planets to Organs) you can activate the negative and positive channels in the body.  Cosmic Chi Kung (formally known as Buddha Palm) utilizes hand energy line techniques that connect with vital organs opening your body up to be healed by the Cosmos. With daily Taoist Cosmic Healing practice, you will activate and open up the body’s channels to the Cosmic Forces of Heaven and Earth and cultivate them in your body. By growing this Cosmic Energy and incorporating the Elemental and Color Forces (Earth/Yellow, Fire/Red, Metal/White, Water/Blue and Wood/Green) internally you will set in motion the total body healing process for your health and longevity and healing others who are open to this energetic healing.

People who hunger or thirst for truth, come to realize the human being is a transmitting station of forces. In which ways is awakening triggered or accelerated by spiritual practice like meditation and chi kung?

Truth is your own reality. It is what you perceive that resonates deep within you to be the truth for you. It is your truth that applies to you not necessarily to anyone else but we are so good at manifesting our truths and they resonate so deeply within us that we think they are for everyone or apply to everyone else. That is the problem that leads to conflict or wars with others. Plus, the factor your truth today maybe not be applicable on a future date because everything around us is changing and is subject to change so what apply for today may not apply in the future. That is the truth.

It is felt that a person knows and feels only through direct experience, and that one has to be willing to die to be reborn and grow in new directions.   In your experience, do students practice meditation & Chi Kung to move beyond the ego? To experience timelessness? For other reasons?

A person knows and feels only through their years of gather information and years of direct experience of utilization of that gain knowledge. The dying is letting go of the ego which obstructs the Flow of the Tao and its mystical way by learning and practicing the UHT practices. Space and time are an illusion created by the imprisonment of our consciousness using the perception of our five senses. When you move beyond our five senses you move beyond time and space.

The idea that man cannot “do” and that everything is already done in him can seem confusing. Only those that are being are in fact doing consciously. Please comment.

Within each our cell of our bodies (DNA) you find all secret truths of the Universal all you have to do is learn to slow down your mind (meditation) they will be revealed to you. That is the art of doing nothing, Wu Wei. To understand Wu Wei, you cannot give your ego, or monkey mind as the Taoist call it, anything positive or negative. Your ego is a parasite because it lives off your energy, positive or negative. When you resist the ego you give it the power to overtake you and if you support the ego it overtakes you. So, what do you do? Wu Wei, you do nothing by not giving it any positive or negative energy. Now this is an art and it takes many years of practice to develop it as the art of doing nothing because when you succeed you will not obstruct the flow of Tao and you will become the Tao.

If you could offer our readers some advice, what would it be?

Life is simple and complete once you have the concept of what you are doing which creates the desire to manifest what you want. Concept, desire and manifestation is the whole process of becoming from the initial manifestation of the physical realm to every thought we have. It is all the same process for all of us. Just think it and you will become it. So, become your own reality and this final note will help you on your journey and the realization of the Tao. As you learn to let go, the energy (Chi) flows through you and eventually, by practicing the UHT Formulas (correct action) you will connect with that energy and become one with it.  And that is the Tao.

Please share anything else you wish to add. 

In 2019, The Professor is offering a 10-day workshop. The date is to be determined. It is the second time this will be available to the UHT instructors who will learn how to upgrade their certifications from the Professor who helped design the Universal Healing Tao Certification system. It is the Professor's wish to share these understandings of the Universal Healing Tao System to his fellow instructors and serious student of the Universal Healing Tao (UHT) before he retires from active teaching and go into his cave for his personal Immortal Ascension.

Also Master Chia is planning to teach in Sydney, Australia in April 2019

Blessings from the Universe & may the Chi be with you.  

Love knowing we are each a version of Life Force or a dormant jedi like those portrayed as separate from us in Star Wars: The Last Jedi and other Star Wars movies.  Story Waters offers a relevant view on The Meaning of Life.  Teachings of the Masters in this world and beyond, invite us to grow more intimate with what is real.

9 Tips to Shift your Program

One view is all you do or not is part of a Matrix program.  Everything you think, every emotion you feel is a download, shaping your life until the moment you begin making this process conscious. 

The good news is, the more you grow conscious, the more receptive you are and more intuitively you shift focus to what resonates with your core energy.  Review these 9 tips to shift your program:

1. Acknowledge what you do not want

Awareness of unhappiness is a pointer. When things do not seem to be working, this is merely perception. You cannot think your way into happiness. You must feel the way. Many people think they are lost until growing aware of what evokes joy, allow feelings to guide them to what self doesn't see. The ego nurtures self-centred desires. The soul has another sense of happiness.  Be open to this. Surrender to the universe.  As John Lennon echoes, "Life is what happens when you are making other plans." Everyone is not destined for a linear path.

2. What do you wish to create?

Visions can be tangible and intangible.  Humility expands consciousness which opens ourselves to the greater universe.  From here, everything starts flowing. This is an opportunity to add detail to the cloud above the cartoon you see as your expanding life.  Expectations arise in the ego.  Humility is the willingness to allow Spirit to be a reliable guide.

3. Clarify your Why

Why do you want to make this dream part of your reality? Does it signify Freedom? Happiness? Security? Love? Wholeness? Having a compelling reason for a dream catapults you into action.  The power of intention is huge. Jot down why you feel drawn to this dream you have set as your goal. Write down all reasons, regardless of whether you consider them major or insignificant. Putting words down is powerful.

4. Identify what you need to make this happen

Brainstorming and reflection allow you to pinpoint what you need to allow this new dimension of your reality.  Allowing is the key to living the dream. Set your sights at any level.  If you were told that you need money to make money, read about people like Brian Tracy who started with nothing and now has millions of dollars.  Acknowledge ego-driven ambition and heart-centred focus each shape what unfolds in your experience. Feel the difference of going with and against the current of the Soul.

5. Make obstacles conscious

You can’t solve a problem you don’t know exists or are not willing to acknowledge. This implies you must also identify the beliefs, thoughts, and mis-perceptions that do not support your dream.  This is what really stands in you way. Whenever you speak about your dream and get flack, encounter fear reflected through others, this is all a projection of your own self-limiting conditioning.

 6. Eliminate negativity

When you are fully conscious of your self-sabotage programming and your attitudes, work on correcting your negative perception.  You cannot achieve something if your thought undermine it.  You must identify, abate, and replace limiting beliefs to see positive changes in your life and financial situation.  

7. Use positive Affirmations

Just like your subconscious mind learned to accept negative perspectives about money, what is possible or out of reach. you can teach it new, positive affirmations and, gradually, it will accept them as true. Practice positive affirmations. Know everything is unfolding perfectly.  Remind yourself of your intention and progress. Repeat : “I love and accept myself and deserve the best,” and “I am living the dream.”  Establish a timeline.  Be firm.  Negativity stops here.

8. Who could help you on your quest?

Read about people who have realized dreams like yours and lost them. What do you gain from their insights? Dale Beaumont  says,“You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.” He discovered what successful people do and followed their lead, aiming for the same results in business.  Jack Canfield also advises approaching people who inspire you. Take steps to connect, talk to people who are teachers, mentors and masters who inspire you on the path.  Do whatever you are guided to do to balance communication within, to foster confidence, build up a charge, energize yourself. Be a magnet for truth in all forms. 

9. How does it feel?

Specify how it feels to be living your dream in this present moment.  Being here is imperative to allowing this to enter your life experience.  The feeling focus helps solidify your new reality.  Envision rewards for wise decisions. It also helps you recognize emotions you have to feeling whole and complete. Be completely receptive.  Imagine aspects of this dream as part of a new life on a new timeline.  For this to happen, you must be honest about which aspects of your current reality you must detach from to make from for the new vision to replace it.  Feel a new reality take root. Adding detail to this vision gives the new roots strength.