My Journey with Pangu Shengong – a profound narration from Dr. Jon, coming from a background of western medicine, alternative medicine and spiritual practice
It is indeed a privilege to be able to communicate with modern-day people about a subject as unusual as qigong. It is not something my medical colleagues would even consider.
My serious journey with PGSG started approximately nine years ago. One evening at 7pm, I had finished with my last patient. I was staring at my stethoscope, my sphygmomanometer and all the medical paraphernalia on my desk. I could feel a tremor in my hands. I could feel, lately, that my movements were slower. Even my arms were not swinging as much as before. My wife commented that my posture was stooped. My father suffered from Parkinson’s. He was taking Levodopa with Benerazide. I was considering whether or not I should also take some to see if I had the same problem. Along with all the other health problems I had at the time, I knew full well I was well on my way to my end.
I began searching for the secret of health and vitality when I was around 8 or 9 years old. Before I was old enough to get into medical school, I did Tai Chi when I was about 10 and I went on learn various styles of martial arts. I studied 2 years of part time Traditional Chinese Medicine while I was in high school in Hong Kong.
While studying medicine in Australia, I lived with some swamis and yogis. Upon graduation I entered into the world of clinical practice. I have continued for over three decades, witnessing first hand the pain and suffering of my patients. When I first started to practice, we used tricyclics to treat depression and surgery to treat peptic ulcers. H2 antagonist hadn’t yet been utilized in Australia. In the alternative medical world, kundalini, meridians were considered cutting edge and people began to talk about “holistic medicine.”
Throughout the years I have observed many types of patients. I have seen thousands of patients, some were doctors themselves. When faced with a terminal illness, they search for alternatives. They are often faced with a multitude of alternatives. Some try herbs, meditation, retreats, yoga, acupuncture, even past life therapies. But almost all of them die. The yogis die. The swamis die. The gurus die. The masters die. One of the reasons I started my search at such a young age and have never stopped is that I felt I needed vast experience to be able to tell truth from the falsehood. I felt I needed to be a doctor because only a doctor would have the opportunity to see thousands of cases. Nine years ago in the depth of my health crisis, I began to be able to see exactly what was and was not healing. It was at that time I decided to put Pangu Shengong to the test.
After years of diving deep into three very different modalities of healing from three different cultures – Chinese, Indian and Western, I came away with an extremely important paradigm shift. At the risk of grossly oversimplifying such an important concept, I will try my best to share this with you. However one may need to suspend a western way of thinking to get a glimpse of this ancient wisdom.
The west has been blind to this single most important wisdom of the East: Life Force. The Chinese call it Qi. In India it is called Prana. It is indeed peculiar that just about all ancient cultures have some concept of Life Force and yet, since the Industrial Revolution, humans have been so dazzled by machinery, antibiotics, computers, etc., that we now have a common belief: people in the distant past knew nothing of importance. Only modern people know the truth. Nowadays, people eagerly watch the news to find out the “latest” discoveries and technologies. The general public as well as health professionals do that. Even today’s Chinese and Indians do that. Truly, this sounds a bit like a teenager laughing at his great grandmother that she can’t cook a better meal than the 13 year old girl who just finished watching a YouTube clip on how to fry an egg!
Truly is it possible that those billions of people across all ancient cultures before us were fools?! We may believe that robotic surgery and all our endoscopic procedures for the last 10 to 20 years are signs of superiority. Better than the manipulation of Life Force done by those Chinese, Indians, Egyptians, Mexican thousands of years ago. Were they all fools?! Perhaps a typical American or Australian 13 year old would answer, “yes, they were stupid” while using whatsapp with their friends.
Mixing western scientific understanding with ancient eastern understanding, I hope to offer a “bottom line.” The law of thermodynamics states that all things degenerate and die due to the phenomenon of entropy. Things naturally turn from an orderly manner into a chaotic manner. For example, well differentiated carcinoma has a better prognosis than poorly differentiated carcinoma. The more chaotic the cellular structure is, the more malignant the cancer cell is. Whatever the “cause” of the cancer is, the end result is chaos within cells. The more chaotic, the more deadly.
In thermodynamics there is only one way to reverse a chaotic state. That is with energy. The only way to reverse a cell in a chaotic state to its original orderly and functional state is also with energy. For this it must be Life Force energy! The ancient Chinese knew this. And they knew how hard it is to cultivate Life Force. They recognized that Life Force is everywhere but couldn’t tap into it easily, until now! You have met this man who enables you to tap into invaluable Life Force – Master Ou.
The difference between the western approach and the eastern approach is this – the west perceives cancer as an enemy to be eliminated at all costs. All cancer research is done with the goal to eliminate these cells with minimal collateral damage –i.e. the host, the patient. The ancients, however, did not perceive cancer as the enemy. They perceived cancer as a symptom of lacking life force. Their focus was to replenish the life force or Qi of the host, the patient.
Through this understanding we see that ancient people were strongly occupied with seeking and maintaining Life Force. The various yogic practices, the different forms of exercise, all the exotic herbs and acupuncture are designed to direct the remaining Life Force in one’s body to the sick area, to unblock meridians allowing Life Force to flow, healing the affected area. One huge problem they all face is this: everyone rapidly runs out of Qi as they grow old and sick, and regardless of how much they rebalance and unblock the meridians, their bodies are disintegrating through increased entropy. We are all dying every day! Yes, everyone was dying – until Master Ou came along! He is the only person who successfully gained access to additional Life Force at will. There are two reasons I can say this with authority. One is that I have met many useless masters. I have searched for over 40 years and have met many professors, scientists, gurus, maharajahs, deans of faculties and “masters.” Master Ou’s system and practices stand out. The other even more important reason is that I have proved it through reason and testing.
With the understanding of Qi, we can deduce that there are three levels of healing a patient:
The first level is patient’s subjective symptomatic relief. So if you start to develop ascites, then you have to tap it. It you develop ankle oedema, you need to take diuretics. Unfortunately this is the level where the general public remains.
The second level is patient’s objective pathology. The tumor shrinks through chemotherapy. The white cell count is now stabilized. This is where the health professionals remain.
The third level is the patient’s overall survival. Unfortunately, this level only the patient can appreciate. The patient’s cancer disappears. He might even feel very well. Then suddenly, his nocturia due to his benign prostatic enlargement becomes problematic. Then, after his TURP, he develops shoulder pain due to bursitis. Perhaps he has nothing specific and complains of “not feeling right.” He visits doctors and specialists and he eventually gets sick of it. He goes to an acupuncturist or to a meditation retreat. Then he may or may not feel well for a while. Perhaps his health is really good, but his job becomes a problem which leads to problems with his wife. He starts to drink and becomes diabetic. A few years later, the cancer is back. If he is under some kind of clinical trial follow up, they probably recorded that his survival was actually prolonged.
According to the ancient Central Americans, one’s life is the summation of the one’s available Life Force. Therefore all the seemingly unrelated problems – cancer, financial stress, relationship problems, hypertension, depression, etc., are all due to the same cause: deficiency of Life Force. Here lie the two opposing eastern and western approaches, or, put another way, the ancient and modern “scientific” approaches: modern people have a bottom up approach. We label everything. In the old days, people got old. Now they have numerous diseases with different names and treatments. The ancients had a top down approach. You lack Life Force, you grow old and sick and develop different problems.
I identify with many people’s feeling of the lack of an “evidence base” for qigong. The truth is that it is not that qigong has no evidence. It is that the west is not ready to look at the evidence! But the good news is that there is no need to do traditional clinical trials.
With a bottom up western approach, you can create specific drugs to target specific cells. You want to be as specific as possible. Then you measure those you look at the long term survival rate. It never dawns on anyone to look at the patient’s marital situation or his sudden affinity to alcohol as the way to assess success and failure. Since we are not dealing with the root cause of Life Force, blazing “miraculous” success is few and far between. If there were such a drug, you would expect a lot of side effects to come along either now or later.
With a top down approach – it is easy. You infuse your body with Life Force. Then ALL levels of your life improve. But you have to be patient and go all the way. For example, you will first feel your energy level and general sense of well being improve. But then you recall you are doing it to cure cancer, and since the cancer is still there you may think “it doesn’t work.” But if you continue, you may find you sleep better. You may conclude it is a placebo effect. And since your cancer is still there, then you may again conclude that “it doesn’t work”. But if you keep going, then suddenly one day your Liver Function Tests improve. Then you think it is probably a coincidence because the cancer is still there. If you keep going you might find yourself in a weird situation. Your biochemistry might be improving but the PET scan still shows there are metastases everywhere. But nevertheless, you feel so well, and you might even decide to take a Caribbean cruise. And if you keep going, you will be surprised one day. The scan is clear! And you wonder, was it all a dream? And then you tell your doctors, and they all think “well it is just one of those cases” and your oncologist shrugs his shoulders and says, “well whatever you have been doing, keep doing it.” Those are the exact words my 85 year old mother’s cardiologist said when her paroxysmal atrial fibrillation stopped happening. She used to go into rapid atrial fibrillation with heart rate up to 120, 130 a minute with all the associated hemodynamic complications and symptoms. At its peak she had an attack once a month. Or they might say something like “we will cancel the operation for now and do another ultrasound in a year’s time” when my niece’s gynecologist saw her scan and found out that her endometrial polpys had disappeared and her ovarian growth shrunk in size by half.
The reason that we don’t have to rely on traditional clinical trials is not so much that the tumor disappears or not. The real reason is that the patient improves in ALL other areas including his health. For me, I no longer stoop, and the last thing anyone can say about me is that I am slow (ask Olivia). I no longer use any inhalers for my chronic airway restriction. I don’t take any analgesics for pain. The growth in my foot disappeared. And I suddenly find it easy to do things that I found difficult before. My relationship with my wife has improved immensely. I suddenly no longer need to visit my dentist besides cleaning my teeth and I still haven’t got time yet to teach my dentist qigong. (He wants to learn because he has never seen anyone with my severely worn enamel on my teeth improve.) My nausea, pain, lumps and bumps………etc. all improving. Could it all placebo? Hardly. Ever try to convince somebody to stop dental pain and to grow back their tooth enamel? Or stop getting out of bed to urinate in the middle of the night when you are sleeping? Or convince a Parkinson patient to walk faster? And are you aware of any drug to help the prostate, the brain’s dopamine level and to rebuild the teeth all at the same time? And if all these things happen after you do Pangu Shengong, is it all placebo, or could it be that the ancient knowledge is right and Master Ou’s Pan Gu Shengong delivers!
I have practiced anywhere between 3.5 to 5.5 hours a day for the last 5 years. I know how important it is.
I no longer need any external medical authority to convince me or guide me. I know full well the severe limitation of modern day’s version of “evidence based approach”. I will share with you one quick one. My mother 2 years ago had a routine chest X Ray. The right hilar region showed a 10mm lesion. Her father died of lung cancer in his late 70’s. What do you think the differential diagnosis was? It wasn’t good. The next step was a CT, bronchoscopy, PET scan, and so on. She was already in her 80’s. I made an appointment for her to see her usual respiratory physician but he was on holiday and she couldn’t see him for 2 weeks. In the meantime, I sent her Qi as taught by Master Ou. I didn’t tell her and I didn’t tell any of my relatives. Not even my wife. I sent her Qi an hour a day, every day. I then told her the day before the specialist’s appointment. The following day she insisted on repeating the X Ray in the morning when her appointment was in the afternoon. The lesion, along with her scattered calcified granuloma had disappeared completely. At the end of the consultation, my mother asked the doctor, “don’t you want to see me again for follow up?” And he said “follow up what? What is there to follow up?”
In a clinical trial, the concern is a placebo effect in the patient. But now the patient is my mother. She is the patient. Where is the placebo effect? She didn’t even know she was the patient and had a problem. Perhaps I, the healer is the one to be tested. She and I live 5 km apart. Nobody knew except me. Then you might say, what about me sending you some Qi to obtain the evidence. All scientific investigation involves being able to duplicate the cause and effect. And I might try to send you Qi. The biggest problem is actually not the distance but my feeling towards you. You are not my mother. And I only have one mother. I may never do it again for anybody! I also stopped all of the classical symptoms of influenza on my wife one day. All symptoms gone within 5 minutes. Suddenly. Yes, suddenly. But I may not even fix a cold even if you are right in front of me. Once again I don’t feel the same towards you as my wife. Indeed, I couldn’t help my sister’s cold once; she was quite negative about qigong.
I just want to share with you one final experience. The experience is summarized by one word – INTENSITY. If you see a patient in the emergency room suffering from extremely severe asthma, you wouldn’t send her home with only 5 mg of Prednisolone. I am sure you would send her home with 50mg. Someone with extremely high blood pressure, you will use the absolute maximum dose of ACE inhibitor plus Calcium blocker plus diuretics and take them all at the same time. The other day a young nurse was concerned that I gave Lactulose at a dose way higher than what the drug book said and the patient did not suffer from any constipation. But if the patient is about to get into hepatic encephalopathy would you dare to use less? Life Force is the same. Metastatic cancer means that the entire system is severely low in Life Force. How much Life Fore do you need? I would say a MASSIVE amount. Practice 6 hours a day for 3 months in the beginning. The body will feel better. Your platelet count may start to rise.
All of my peers are now planning for the final stage of their lives. They go on cruises. Do all their trips. Because they can feel their bodies are giving up. But I do my qigong everyday without fail. I am frightened to be old again. My life has just begun. Master Ou at the age of 70 is leading the way. Come and join us.
[Written in March 29, 2018]