long it will last. I would like to let my body run its natural course. I have really got a great benefit from practicing Qigong and Pigu. I am not the only person who has this kind of phenomenon. Miss. Jun Wang in Connecticut and Dr. Ren in Vancouver, Canada had the same experience of mine. During the May 18th Qigong lecture at the Chinese Acupuncture and Medicine College in Hawaii, the mostly Western audience appeared to make ’spontaneous movements’. Some shook with violent convulsions; others waved their arms. Some wept or cried loudly while others acted like acrobats. A Hawaiian of oriental descent, suddenly cried violently and had a bursting headache. Two days later, she told us that her incurable, nerve-related pain of over ten years was almost gone. Dr. Cheah, a biologist , had had little success with her several month long weight loss program. Following Yan Xin’s directions for weight loss at the Qigong lecture May 19th, she was amazed to find she had lost eight pounds in one day. A gentleman is a local resident who owns an organic farm on the island of Marocaya. By chance, he watched Dr. Yan Xin’s lecture on the May 18th evening news. Although he had never before known of Qigong, he received powerful energy during the program and began a spontaneous movement releasing all his fatigue. Curious, he attended the Qigong lecture on May 19th and 20th. There he followed Yan Xin’s suggestion and passed energy to his wife. When he saw us off at the Honolulu airport on May 24th, he told us that his wife’s liver pain was amazingly cured. Although I have attended Dr. Yan Xin’s Qigong lectures many times in the past, I was more deeply impressed this time. I have found that the effect of Qigong for Westerners is as good as for Chinese. Some Westerners are more sensitive to Qigong in spite of the language barrier and they always receive the energy and the message. I believe this proves that Qigong, a Chinese treasure, not only belongs to the Chinese but is of benefit to all mankind. 136 -5 3) Qigong Master Draws a Crowd Ancient Chinese Practice Gives a Pentecostal Approach to Health By Don Lattin (San Francisco Chronicle 5/16/1991) When Yan Xin talks, people do more than listen. Some shake in violent convulsions. Others wave their arms i ecstasy. some weep. Others crow like roosters. All of these reactions were on display Tuesday night when a crowd of about 1,700 devotees---most of them of Chinese? descent---turned out at the Masonic Auditorium in San Francisca) to hear Yan deliver a “lecture with emission of Qi." or Although few Americans have heard of Yan Xin, mainland& China’s most famous "Qigong master", most of the 1.1 billion? people in China know about him. S Qigong (pronounced Chee Goong) is an ancient Chinese practice that combines breath,. concentration and meditation teh promote health and well-being. It works on some of the sameo principles as t’ai chi ch’uan, the slow-moving martial art, and acupuncture, the Chinese healing technique. 4 Since 1985, when a Qigong revival started sweeping ® China, 50 million to 60 million Chinese have gone to see Yano many attracted by stories of his miraculous healing powers, hig alleged ability to channel electric current through his body, ando his capacity to "change wine from light to strong." - “When word that he’s coming leaks out, people flock too him," said Charlotte Sun, a former resident of China who nowo teaches Qigong in San Francisco with her Chinese husband, Sun Da-Jin. "He has to live in the underground, he is in sucha 7§2R000300430003 0 > demand." Qigong, which is becoming increasingly popular among 137
a” fe =) o¢ o o o ~ WN ‘< 5 - 2 western aficionados of martial arts, is normally an individual practice in which students work on their own health and well- being. At the beginning of Yan’s performance Tuesday night, most members of the audience sat passively in their chairs as they attempted to absorb some of the energy purportedly radiating from the stage, where the unassuming master sat behind a flower- bedecked table and delivered a lecture in Chinese. Minutes intd his talk, several began experiencing what Yan calls “spontaneous movements." Before long, the scene began to resemble a Pentecostal prayer meeting with many people waving their arms and making unintelligible sounds. “Those who are sensitive might start having some strong physical sensations---or start laughing or crying," Yan advised. “Don’t worry. This is quite normal." Yan, 41, bespectacled and diminutive, seems taken aback by his celebrity status. He began his lecture by telling the crowd-- some of them in wheelchairs—-that Qigong can only heal physical ailments "in special cases." He advised them to combine Qigong with conventional medical care. Tickets to Yan’s lecture, sponsored by the New China Education foundation of San Francisco, cost $15 to $50. “Dr. Yan is a miracle worker," said foundation vice chairman Han-sheng Lin, a professor of history at Sonoma State University. . In an interview earlier at the empress of China restaurant in Chinatown, Yan said he first came to the United States to do research with AIDS patients. Yan said the research indicated that Qigong can strengthen the immune system of people with AIDS, but when asked for details, he said the study is “incomplete.” Ken Sancier, a chemist and senior scientist at the Stanford 138 Research Institute, worked with Yan on/the/AIDS study, but said he could not release any findings. / | "We had an agreement not to yhak¢ the results public until he had a chance to review the results,““eaid Sancier, a researcher ane Qigong Institute of the East-West Academy of Healing Nevertheless, Sancier remains convinced that highly trained Qigong masters "can heal others without touching them," citing studies in china that appear to confirm such feats. Many western researchers, however, are highly skeptical. In 1988, a panel of six experts went to China to investigate claims that Qigong masters could heal people by energy radiating from their fingers. Paul Kurtz, chairman of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, said the panel found i no evidence that Qigong can destroy tumors or make the lame : Ww Replied Yan:"They didn’t test the right masters." i | | | | | 139 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300430003-5
ce ie al oso ame “Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300430003-5 \ a 4) Bush Meet Yan Xin in San Francisco (Intemational Daily, 9/28/1990) [San Francisco] President Bush was in S.F. on September19 to support Senate Wilson in his run for state governor of California. When he heard about Dr. Yan Xin, the famous Chinese medicine doctor, and great Qigong scientist with extraordinary abilities, was visiting the United States and had successfully draw large crowds during his Qigong lectures; the president was very pleased and invited Dr. Yan Xin as special guest. During the meeting, he praised Dr. Yan Xin as the contemporary sage and posed for a picture with him. The president extended his appreciation on Dr. Yan’s successful efforts in research on the scientific principles behind Qigong healing and spreading up Chinese Qigong during his Qigong lecture at a large number of American universities. ; Yan Xin’s name, just known in the United States three months ago, has drawn keen public attention since June 21. Now he is frequently reported by the media such as newspapers, and TV stations. Yan Xin becomes the symbol of ‘miraculous’, *powerful’ and ‘incredible’ overnight. Master Yan Xin has visited more than 30 cities in the United States. Qigong fever followed him wherever he went. This fever continue to roll back and forth from the East coast to the West coast and the temperature does not seem to reduce. Yan Xin has directed this fever from emotional worship to rational research and scientific application. Qigong has been viewed as unthinkable since a long time ago. Although many incurable diseases were miraculously cured , people do not but worship )Qigong masters) blindly, even with exaggeration. Yan Xin is called grand master, ont only because he possesses extraordinary Qigong power, but more importantly he is the first Qigong master to bravely break traditional values 140 (rules) and cooperated with many authorative scientists in scientific experiments and explorations on the unknown secrets of Qigong. The well-know Chinese scientist Dr, Qian Xueshen once predicted ‘to combination of Qigong, Chinese medicine and latent energy, while (once) being make theoretical and scientific will result in a new scientific revolution! Master Yan Xin is but the pioneer of this revolution. 5) IYXQSA First International Yan Xin Qigong Health Workshop - A summery | | The five-day workshop was held at the University | of Illinois, Champaign, from October 7th through 11th, 1991. Most of the eighty eight trainees came for | treatment of ailments, their own or their relatives’. Some came to probe further into the theory of Qigong with its i subtle perplexities. | Workshop trainees spent their mornings inspiring each other to study and discuss Qigong theories and the effect of the daily lecture on each individual. In the Qigong and simultaneously emitted his bioenergy. On one evening, Dr. Yan Xin lectured at the Yen Jing |restaurant, on another at the YMCA. Some nights the ‘trainees practiced individually what they learned in the | afternoon. There was a final meeting where trainees shared 1-i] afternoons, Dr. Yan Xin lectured on advanced internal: -RDP96-00792R000300430003-5 tees vase Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA pee ER BR Rome et OR Re
easements saree Ba ATTA EEE, "OTE SET Lor : : Per igi bik airtt rise tahoe oe Approved For Réléasé 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300430003-5 . their achievements and their impressions of the course of study. Although many had attended Qigong lectures before, all felt they had, for the first time, really sensed the subtle entity and essence of Qigong. The trainees unanimously felt that the short Workshop brought more unbelievable effects to them than they originally expected. Right after the Workshop, Dr. Yan Xin gave lectures with bioenergy to members of the Association at Purdue University, Indiana, and to those at Washington University, Missouri. The Cures A physician from California, whose left ear had been deaf for the past twenty years gained his hearing on the fourth day of the class. He had been to many hospitals and had consulted many prominent E.N.T. specialists for the last twenty years with no help. During the lectures, he consulted Dr. Yan Xin about his ear. Dr. Yan then emitted his bioenergy while saying, "Insert a cotton ball into your right ear and see if your left ear can hear." Believing he might somehow hear, he did immediately what he was told. His left ear could hear the sound of people talking in the hall. Overwhelmed with joy and excitement, he told the group at the closing meeting, "I wouldn’t have dared to even dream that I could hear with my left ear, but today Dr. Yan Xin has caused that dream to come true. How grateful I am to him!" On Aug 18, 1991 in Chicago, a University of Illinois Ph.D. candidate had a car accident which broke the femur of her right leg into three pieces and crushed her heel. She attended the class in a wheelchair pushed by her mother. Her leg was treated in the hospital before she came. Her doctor ordered her not to even try standing before the end of January because he would not be responsible for her treatment if she broke her leg again. She was a pathetic sight. Her right heel was in a plaster cast and her left eye was covered with a piece of black cloth. Her eye had been turned aside in the accident and she now had double vision and was cross- eyed and photophobic. Sitting in the wheelchair with her - chin propped in her hands, she looked pale, listless and , helpless. After the open lecture at the YMCA on the third evening, she, with encouragement from other class members, took the cover from her eye. To her delight she found that she was no longer photophobic and that the | double images seemed closer together. | Of course she was still very cautious and did not | dare to take any risk with the leg. However, the lectures | with bioenergy daily strengthened her body, mind, and | spirit. On the fourth day, another trainee was incited by Master Yan’s bioenergy to spontaneously pull her from the wheelchair, saying, "You are all right. There is nothing wrong with your leg; come on..." When pulled out of the wheelchair, the Ph.D. | candidate was able to stand and walk with the trainee’s help while the others cheered her with shouting and clapping. She even waltzed on the fourth evening during | the farewell banquet, invited by the same trainee who | had helped her to walk. After the dance, she walked Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300430003-5 “fee ey tee st we ow ot