Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300430001-7 LN163-93 all know about, like Chinese medicine's practices of taking the pulse and probing the ear with a needle for which there is already a large body of practical proof that these cure illnesses. Research in recent years has discovered the phenomena of the mutual affect between controlled breathing and the body. Based on the configuration of the palm of the hand, and even the shape of the fingernails, one can diagnose and cure disease. Perhaps each tiny cell in the human body contains information about the whole body. In the future, when science develops even further, methods of examining the body might undergo a revolutionary change; and it is possible that just by taking out a small amount of cells, one can diagnose every kind of illness. 4. Gvradations and Degrees: Contemporary research on unbalanced thermodynamics has discovered that a physical system that has an expanding structure contains a great many different degrees of balance which some call a fixed bearing. The model for its expansion is: fixed bearing evolving to a higher degree of fixed bearing and so on. The human body is a great living physical system that contains an expanding structure which likewise has different grades and degrees of fixed bearing. This type of phenomenon is manifested most clearly in qi training. In the essay "Somatic Qi Function Mode and Pulikejin's {phonetic translation} Theory of Expanding Structures," we intend to discuss this in detail. 5. Thought Control: The influence of a person's thoughts and the influence of the condition of a person's spirit on bodily health is something recognized by all: delight harms the heart, anger harms the liver, longing harms the spleen, worry harms the lungs, and fear harms the stomach. Emotional stress and anxiety are the sources of many kinds of diseases. The effects of thought on qi are like an on-off switch or a control device. "Where thought goes, so goes gi." Thought gives rise to a control effect. Experiments have already proved that, whether the effect of external qi on bacteria is to eradicate or assist them, all depends on a single thought. China's Daoists, when practicing gi, compared thought to fire. Depending on whether the thought was strong or weak, it was called respectively "military fire" or "civil fire." The controlling ability of thought was referred to as "the strength of the fire." We acknowledge that when training for the purpose of a strong, healthy body (most importantly when training in gi), thought plays a key role. At the higher levels of training in qi, however, the emphasis is on getting rid of all subjective thoughts and eliminating the influence of the seven emotions and six desires. This is just what is meant by "behead the three corpses," "kill the nine poisonous insects," and "the necessity of focusing the mind where no one is." Even with a novice at training in qi, the stress is on "following its nature." Once this is achieved, then "the essence will naturally transform to qi, qi will naturally transform to spirit, and spirit will naturally return to emptiness." This should call our attention to the natural control effect of somatic qi. 6. Self-regulation: The human body originally had a very strong self-regulatory ability but for various reasons (such as Chinese medicine's six debaucheries and seven emotions) the development of this ability has been interfered with and limited. If we only let the human body relax and enter into an indistinct and subtle state, this would suffice to develop the body's self-regulation function and this is what is described as: "When humans are still and quiet, heaven and earth return to their places; "forgetting everything including myself, for a long time I've had this subtle medicine." This is just to say that the most important method for nurturing qi is guietude; for preventing and curing illnesses, the first and foremost thing is the frequent nurturing of the mind. From quietude one enters a fixed state and this allows wisdom to spring forth naturally and this is what is meant by ‘when the mind has no abode, we clearly see our nature," in this remark is a 5 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300430001-7
Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300430001-7 LN163-93 thousand subtle meanings. Let everybody research this together. 7. Intelligence: This is the one most important characteristic in differentiating the human body from other material substances. Intelligence ig a technical term of wide but rather blurred meaning. We use it to include that which is different from innate ability. When measuring the physical response of outer qi, people realized that there were sequential vibrations and these perhaps are the first indications of the intelligence characteristic of outer qi. We should not, however, think that the intelligence characteristic of somatic qi and outer qi is vibration. Somatic qi has a live intelligence. It not only reflects the body's life functions (including the qi function) but it also is controlled and influenced by the person emanating the qi. People with skill can even learn from qi the physical appearance and mental state of the person emanating the qi. We believe that every person is constantly radiating their own special qi into space just as different radio stations emit radio broadcast waves into space. The only difference is the differences in the strength of the signal. This is perhaps the reason why some people with a highly developed function can diagnose and cure illness at a great distance. The authors previously participated in some experiments that revealed that many Qi Masters can use thought to cause the emanated outer qi to reveal itself in diagrams. This is "thought producing shapes." We have also seen some people who can "transmit feelings by thought." From this we can see that outer qi is a type of "life flow," "consciousness flow." Somatic gi harbors a complex intelligence that present day scientific instruments find difficult to register. Cc. Transformation of Somatic Qi Above we explained that a special characteristic of somatic gi is that it can change its nature. For example, the basic colors of the qi of ordinary people are not only decided by their "type" but also change slightly in accordance with the change of the seasons. Spring, for example, carries a blue color; summer, red; autumn, white; and winter, black. These are all ordinary phenomena and they also are a kind of indication of the characteristic of release in the human body. In this section, we turn our attention to the several fundamental states of degeneration of somatic qi (changes to the body caused by illness) and its advance (training to raise the function level of practitioners of the qi function). 1. The Degeneration of Somatic Qi Chinese medicine often uses the flourishing and decline of Male qi (yang gi) and female qi (yin qi) to summarize the whole process of a person from birth to maturity to old age and death. Chinese medicine reckons the withering of the male qi signifies the death of a person. This explanation is based on real observations. One need only go observe and comprehend in order to discover this kind of complete change to the human body. Based on our observations, the degeneration of the human body has the following special characteristics: first, the real qi emanated by each of the viscera and the whole body is weak and scattered; second, the sick qi and the miscellaneous qi in the body flourish; third, the qi images that take shape are relatively dark; fourth, the outer qi that seeps out causes people (of courge only people sensitive to qi) to feel uncomfortable, most indicate they feel chilly; and fifth, some of the viscera change due to illness. Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300430001-7
Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300430001-7 LN163-93 Of course, progression in things is usually from a part to the whole. In the whole world only humans are very intelligent and only humans suffer the most illnesses. Somatic qi undergoes different kinds of changes brought about by different kinds of illnesses. Below we mention a few of the important phenomena : 1. The blocked qi model: In the bodies of ordinary people, qi circulates in the body in accordance with fixed principles and from this forms a rigid whole. If in a certain part of the body the qi is blocked for a period of time then a change due to illness will occur. On the other hand, if there is a change due to illness, then qi will be blocked. Thus the illness and the blockage are mutually cause and effect. Moreover, a part that is blocked will in turn influence other parts causing other organs to lose their functions and become ill. Observing from the standpoint of the qi function, it is not difficult to discover the phenomena of gi blockage. It manifests itself in a thickening of the sick qi. Some of the core (the phlegm) of the sick qi will become spotted, some round, and some fragmented. Just as the condition of illness will differ so will the color of the blocked qi differ as well. 2. The top and bottom unbalanced model: What practitioners of Chinese medicine and qi call "the heart and the stomach don't mix just as fire and water don't mix" is an example of this model which mostly afflicts the elderly. The shape this model takes is: the bottom parts are cold, "fire qi" (some real, some false) rises up, the Yin in the stomach is insufficient, Yang in the kidneys overflows; sickness is common to this model. It is necessary to undertake adjustments to the whole body until the system reaches the equilibrium known as the harmony of Yin and Yang. 3. "Correct qi" is insufficient, "abnormal qi" flourishes. This model manifests itself in a weak body with many illnesses. In some cases, it manifests itself in the breaking away of the inner organs (such as miscarriages, hernia, and gastroptosis). It is necessary to undergo training in qi or a cure by nurturing original qi and dispelling the abnormal qi. 2. Developing the Best Characteristics of Somatic Qi Somatic qi is the principle that unites the whole of the human body. Because of this, if we can get somatic qi to develop in the best way, then we will be able to achieve a strong, healthy body and even reverse aging. The ancients said: "Oi makes for long life." If we wanted to describe China's science of prolonging life from the pre-Qin period to the Ming and Qing dynasties, we could do so in one word igi" The Chinese practice of qi is one kind of life prolonging science that makes somatic qi develop in the best ways. The practice of qi, by clearing the channels in the body that transport gi, can strengthen the interchange of inner and outer qi, gradually strengthen the body, strengthen one's ability to control and regulate the body, and achieve a Yin Yang equilibrium of the bodily systems. With the bodily systems stabilized, health and long life will result. After this, there will be a beneficial influence on the body's internal systems such as the urinary system, the blood circulation system, the digestive system, the nervous system, and so forth. The effect will be such that even organs that have lost their functions,such as the brain ,the body, and the thyroid, will revive; white hair will turn black; rejuvenation and other phenomena will occur. Discussion The present essay discusses the structure, nature, and special characteristics of somatic qi and qi location. Due to the special 7 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300430001-7
Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300430001-7 LN163-93 characteristics that qi has, we believe that . [Translator's note: The article is not complete. A note at the end of this page says: “turn to page 62."] Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300430001-7
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