Experience With 7 Steps Star Walk (七星罡经验谈)

I forgot to mention that if anyone who has tried the star walk, he/she should have some psychic experiences during or after the star walk exercise. A friend has tried the star walk and told me his personal experience:

“When I'm doing it only like 3-4 times, nothing happens, but one sure thing is my mind become clear. But when I'm doing it for many times, like 10-20 times, I felt a shiver like being in haunted place. At first I just ignored it. But then after I sleep, I think I've dream something like bad omen. I see the corpse of a relative who has passed away rise up and being alive again, and talk something. Maybe you can advise me regarding the meanings of my experience and what to do? Are those who do the star walks are prone to attack by psychic entities?”

Apparent our friend is very sensitive to psychic entities. Anyway, the star walk exercise opens up doors to spiritual realms. Each step of the star walk means that the person enters a spiritual door. So, there are 7 doors to the spiritual world.

It is not a surprise to have goose bumps, shivers or seeing spirits during or after the exercise because by performing the star steps; the person has effectively entering and exiting the spiritual world. In the eyes of spirits, this practitioner is merely a stranger who consistently entering and exiting their world.

At times, spirits would pass messages to the star walk practitioner in his/her dreams if one has no psychic ability yet. When a message is from spirits that means something in the practitioner’s life is changing. So, please pay some attention to these messages but don’t worry too much about them because as one engages more into the practice, his/her psychic ability would be sharpened and subsequently this person would be able to predict future events in his/her life and avoid them subconsciously.

One thing for sure, one should not overlook the effectiveness of this star step which was passed down by Taoist masters of old. Same old words, try to experience it and believe it! Oh, please avoid horse play or problems will happen too…

  

Seven Steps To Disaster Free Life (七星祛难)

The sevens steps exercise can improve one's luck and prevent disasters.

My friend said that he is an accident prone person and that he is very easy to get injured. Apparently he had many accidents over the years and the question is if there is a way to remove this life time curse.

In fact, I am also a person who is very much prone to accidents. Out of 50 persons in my class, I was the one who tripped and fall. My car was bumped by others 3 times a year so I continue to use it as what is the point of getting a new car and have it scratched by others?

No worries. There is a method to avoid or lessen one’s damage. This method is called the ‘seven steps method’. If one is persistent in practising it constantly then I can guarantee that most of one’s life disasters can be eliminated if not lessened. The seven steps method will increase one’s aura and increase the sharpness of one’s subconscious mind which in turn will automatically hinted a person to stay away from troublesome spots.

This exercise is ideally being carried out at night between 7pm to 9pm when the stars can be seen in the sky. Of course, it is best to do the exercise under the sky but this is not necessary.

When the time is right, the person should wear loose clothing and start walking the seven steps as shown in the diagram above. When a person starts to walk the steps, his/her hands should make the gesture as if pushing open windows. At times, one can also hold a ritual sword with both hands in front of one’s chest. A sword is normally used when the practitioner feels disturbed by some entities during the star walk exercise.

There is a mantra that accompanies each step:

白气混沌灌我形，

(The white chi is pouring into my shape.)

禹步相催登阳明，

(The star steps enable me to ascend to the 7 stars.)

天回地转履六甲，

(While the heaven and earth rotates, I travel across constellation.)

蹑罡履斗齐九灵，

(Star steps enable me to be at par with 9 types of spiritual beings.)

亚指伏妖万邪惊，

(I subdue demons and stunned all evils.)

天神助我潜身去，

(The gods help me to escape from peril situations.)

一切祸殃总不侵。

(No harms shall befall upon me.)

There is no limitation on how many times one should walk the 7 steps. I normally walk 7 to 49 rounds. Of course, the more one performs the steps; the faster one can expel filthy aura from one’s body and indirectly transforms one’s health and luck too.

  

Getting Rid Of Rats In Dreams (化猫捕鼠)

My friend’s house is situated near the central wet market. As expected he is tormented by rats due to leftover foods in the rubbish dump. So he asked me if there is any magic to solve his predicament…

Well, actually there are many rituals out there! But the best is to get rid of rats with dream magic! Below is originally a dream magic meant for fun but it has proven its practicality. According to my Taoist master that if a person’s house is infested by mice, then he/she can transform his/her soul into a cat to chase away all mice.

The method is very simple:

First the person should draw the shape of a cat on a piece of yellow paper and then cut the shape out with scissors. Keep this paper cat in the drawer and wait for an appropriate day known as ‘the removal day’ (除日).

When everything is in order and before he/she goes to sleep, the person should hold the paper cat with his/her left/right hand and making the ‘sword mudra’ (剑指) with his/her right hand.

The person should recite the below mantra:

“猫乎猫乎，其魂来附，灭此鼠类，扬威耀武，赫赫神咒，通灵入化！”

(Cat oh cat! The soul possesses me to kill these mice so that I can be victorious with this amazing super mantra!)

After reciting the mantra, the paper cat should be paste at one’s right waist before one sleeps. In this way the person’s soul will turn into cat and chase out any mice in his/her house. If this ritual can be performed regularly, then his/her house will be free from the torment of mice. Do you believe it or not?

Easy Life With Ngai Magic (鬼花无忧法)

Many people come to me wanting to learn about magic ritual that can make them rich free and easy.

Well, I don’t have a sure magic that can make a person rich as wealth is God given or if you believe in karma; then what one gets this life time is the resultant of what he/she did in his/her previous lives…

While I can’t guarantee anyone to get rich with magic, but there is a sure way that would make a practitioner to live in easy life the cheap way; a life free from mundane worries at least.

In order to get a worry free life, we have to look into Vietnamese Ngai magic for help… If and only if one is brave enough to perform the ritual:

If a magician wishes to have an easy life, then he/she can go to a sacred mountain to pray to the mountain spirits. He/she must meditate in the mountain until a vision or a dream hinting where to find a plant to bring home.

Once a hint is obtained, then the magician can go to the place with some food offerings and incense to pray before digging out the plant which may be a banana plant near a river, or a type of wild flower.

The magician should ideally plant the plant/flower in his/her house compound and take good care of the plant as if his own wife/husband. Everyday he/she should talk to the plant/flower and tell it his/her problems. The plants should be worshipped with incense and food offerings twice a month.

If the magician performs the ritual faithfully, then he/she should find that he/she might not get rich; he/she would certainly free from major illnesses and monetary problems. However, it the plant withered; then this would be an indication of bad lucks approaching. In this case, the magician should return to the scared mountain and asks the mountain spirits for assistance.

Another way to go about is to get just any ordinary plants such as gingers, lilies etc. and plant the plants on a grave of a recently deceased for about 100 days. Within this period, the magician must go to the grave to water the plant and perform chanting to ask the spirit of the grave to enter the plant. After 100 days, the dead soul should attach onto the plant and ready to be deployed.

My friend has problems with his staff and he wanted to kick the person out. So I gave him a haunted plant and his staff automatically resigned within one week’s time. Strangely, the plant suddenly vanished from the friend’s safekeeping before he was declared bankrupt. Strange but true!

Of course, this method is not for the faint hearted. Please don’t try if you are not ready to come face to face with spirits.

The Mysterious Fire Incident (神秘的火焰)

My friend sent me this very interesting story:

“This morning I read newspaper concerning there is a house in my town which is very haunted, it has mysterious fire meaning that the items in house will catch fire by itself automatically like curtain, windows, doors and chairs etc. When fire brigade came to put out the fire; the more they put the bigger the fire it is. In addition firemen saw a dark shadow and they shouted at it and it subsequently disappeared inside the wall.

The owner of the haunted house is an Indian man he is not a master but he learnt some black magic spell before. According to what he has said recently someone anger him, so he cast black magic spell on the person but the person retaliated by sending back the spell to him so both fought using black magic spells. Finally this Indian man lost and from that day onwards he started to suffer from this mystery fire problem. The State assemblyman also went to the place at night at see the place caught fire…”

So I was asked to comment if ghosts can start a fire…

My point of view is that there are many reasons why fire can start:

In Feng Shui fire incidents can be started when the flying stars combined into fire element and that the person has stagnant air such as that of in an enclosed space; then there are high percentages that fire incident will occur. In this case, one only needs to put a pot of soil in the room and a bowl of water. This shall prevent forthcoming fire.

Another more scientific explanation is the presence of methane gas emitted from underground. When the flashing point of methane is achieved, then fire shall start automatically. Places such as formerly swamp area, rubbish reclaim area or pig barns would have large quantity of methane gas. When this gas slowly leaked upwards and met with heat, it will burn automatically.

When I was studying in Taiping, I like to fish for Tilapia fish at Aulong tin mine lakes nearby. There were many pig barns and the animal manure was being discharged through drains. Every time when I walked by the drains behind pig barns, I can see gas bubbles emitted from the drain water. At times when I felt playful, I would light a piece of match and throw towards the bubble. Almost instantly a bluish flame can be seen floating in the air. It was quite amazing now think of it.

If we go back to the mysterious fire incident, I doubt that any spirits can start a fire these days although spirits indeed can make our house hold electrical appliances to be short circuited. 

Fresh Herbs Vs Dried Herbs (鲜草药与干草药)

Many people asked me this question:

“Since we can purchase dried herbs in large quantities now days, why do you still spend so much time tending my herbal garden; and insisting on using fresh herbs?”

My answer is always simple:

“Those who know how to use herbal medicine would understand that the healing property of these herbs changes slightly according to the way they are preserved.”

In Traditional Chinese and Thai medicine:

Fresh herbs are naturally balanced with distinctive properties. For example a fresh ginger rhizome is warm in Chinese medicine; and it belongs to fire and earth elements. However, when ginger rhizome is dried; then the increase in elemental energy would depend on how the ginger rhizome is dried.

In Tradition Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Thai medicine, if ginger rhizome is wind or sun dried; then it carries more heat energy. In this case, dried ginger should not be given to patient who is ‘hot based’ as that would cause the hot based person to experience fever.

Of course, ginger is not a good example to show the significance of how fresh herbs and dried herbs are used. Traditionally, fresh herbs are used in treating fresh injuries, animal and insect bites because they carry moisture and those fresh herbs have more cooling effect. Also, fresh herbs can be used to make medicinal creams and they can also be consumed fresh as vegetables. Dried herbs on the other hand, need to be used in conjunction with other elements such as alcohol, rice wine, vinegar or water so that their essences can be released fully.

This is the same case when rosemary is used fresh or dried in western culinary practices. I am sure fresh rosemary leaves would give the taster a refreshing aroma than dried ones. So, care must be taken not only on which herbs to use in treating illnesses; but also on how they are processed. Our forefathers knew this, why shouldn't we?

From Tenaga Dalam To Chinese Folk Cults (中外法教面面观)

This posting is to answer queries of an enthusiast:

‘Tenaga Dalam’ (TD) literary refers to ‘internal energy’, i.e. it is a type of exercise once popular in Malay Archipelago that is believed to bestow its practitioners with invulnerability. Basically practices of TD flourished during Indonesian war of independence around 1945 to 1946. I think perhaps local folks need some kind of practices that could bestow invulnerability against the Dutch whom were better armed. This is the same as the Chinese Boxer Rebellion against Christians in the 1890s. If we look further into the Chinese history, Boxer Group (义和团) members practices ‘fists of god’ (神拳) because they believed that this type of cult could bestow them with invulnerability against the western bullets.

Same as with Indonesian TD, the Chinese Folk Cults can be subdivided into many schools: Mao Shan (茅山)，Liu Ren (六壬)，Jin Ying (金英) etc. People would confuse these folk cult sects as part of traditional Taoism because these folk cults used names of traditional Taoist deities just like standard Taoist schools. Some scholars try to differentiate both systems as ‘Ceremonial Taoism’ (道教) and ‘Cult Taoism’ (法教).

The Ceremonial Taoism as its name implies, performs elaborate Taoist ceremonies and traditionally had the patronage of Chinese imperial families. So, Ceremonial Taoism is normally out of bound to ordinary folks as only royal families and the rich and famous of that time have the money and time to support a whole group of Ceremonial Taoists. Since folks of lower social status needed some kind of spiritual pursues too; Cult Taoism was hence devised.

Cult Taoism generally services general folks through simple magic rituals to solve their day to day problems: safety, protection, healing, exorcism, divination etc.

A this point, I just want to give you an idea how standard Taoist ritual vs. cult ritual like:  a standard Taoist ceremony can last from 3 days to 7 days with many Taoists; a simple Taoist cult ritual only lasts for less than an hour and one Taoist would be sufficient to do the job.

In order to enhance the credential of a cult Taoist, patron gods/goddesses are invoked into the Taoist’s body to perform miracle such as walking over fire, climbing up the knife ladders, invulnerability to sharp objects etc. Just same with the TD counterpart, when gods/goddesses possessed a Taoist, he/she would be able to perform dancing or kung fu stances. Whatever cases that may be: all of the above seemingly invulnerability feasts are only meant to show: the god/goddess has indeed possessed the body of the Taoist and it is the god/goddess that has bestowed the power for healing etc. The purpose is of course to gain trust and donation from the spectators.

With the emigration of Chinese labourers in the 18^th to 19^th centuries, these Taoist cults also being transmitted all over the world especially into the Southeast Asia regions. The Jin Ying (金英) sect is said to contain heavy Singapore and Malaysian flavours though traces of other sects could also be found across the region. Having said so, not many people continues to practise cult Taoism and many people has become spirit medium known as ‘Tangki’. Of course, these Taoist cults remain as popular in Taiwan and Hong Kong still.