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Featured Article
Longevity & Immortality
excerpt from
The Healing Promise of Qi
by Dr. Roger Jahnke
Time Reversal
One of the most fascinating things to me in Qigong has been the Chinese
fascination with longevity and immortality. Immortality is not living forever in
the body you have today, it is to be aware of your eternal nature – before you
die.
Interestingly, Laozi addresses this in the context of light in his poem #52,
"using your own radiance return to the source of all light, this is the practice
of entering eternity."
Longevity - Shou
In Qi cultivation this process is initiated at the practical level of health and healing. However, in the more advanced
methods that are explored in the Heaven Phases, healing, longevity and immortality are gained by returning to one’s
primordial or pre-birth nature and by merging with the timeless field of universal Qi. Many Qigong practices are focused
on reversing time and returning to your pre-birth when there was no stress, no complexity, nothing to know, nothing to
plan, nothing to remember.
Very recently, scientists have determined that our usual perception of time is not entirely correct. The arrow of time does
not just travel forward in accordance with the clock and the sun, it also travels the opposite direction. I found this out
while presenting at the Esalen-Noetic Science conference noted earlier. My roomate was the distinguished physicist
Helmut Schmidt, who developed the digital random numbers generator (DRNG) at Boeing in 1969. This device,
produces sets of random numbers that allow scientists to investigate non-local and quantum effects. In our conversations
I was amazed to find that his work reflected the concepts that were so prevalent in the world view of the ancient Chinese
Qi Masters. Talking Dr. Schmidt is a little like talking to Laozi, "When exploring the science of Qi, emphasize the
mystery – anything else that you name it is probably wrong." In his research Dr Schmidt has demonstrated that mind or
consciousness influence the chance process in nature so that an outcome can reflect your intention. (50, 51)
This was further confirmed by Russell Targ (52, 53) a physicist who conducted the CIA research on remote viewing and
Dean Radin of the Boundry Institute. (54, 55)In the discussions with these three luminaries of science it became obvious
that there is a significant amount of research data that suggests that an influence can travel from the present to influence
the past or from the future to influence the present. It has been found that this influence is potentiated by coherent
function, aligning inner resources through mind focus and intention.
The possibilities that arise from this research are amazing. Healing may not actually be simply physiologic. In the light
of time reversal, healing could as easily be caused by an influence going into the past and altering the development of
health status even before a disease had occurred. This is connected to our discussion on possibility, probability and
actuality. The set of "probabilities" that were on track to cause the "actual" disease would be altered by a signal or
message that travels into the past to trigger an alternative set of probabilities. This would prevent the disease before it
began and established a new history, a new set of "actualities", for the person which begins to manifest in the past but is
reflected in the present.
12 Yang-Sheng (Nurturing Life) Volume 1, Issue No. 7