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A couple of weeks ago, my Tai Chi brother (from another mother) said, “The #2 guy in Kunlun Bliss - Kan Sasaki - is coming to the U.S. to do a workshop. You wanna go?” Actually, I wanted to see Max Christensen, aka Lama Thunderbolt, but he had just retired from public teaching.

So, you know about Max? If you haven’t… go watch his video at lamathunderbolt.com... and then come back to read this article.

Trust me, go watch it first.

Pretty amazing, huh? So how does Sifu Max do what he does in that video? How does he defy the very laws of physics? He has said, "Kunlun is like a magnetic field that is created between heaven and earth, heaven being the head, and the earth being the naval area, or what we will call the lower cinnabar field."  When students activate the dormant bliss through practice, the polarity fields reach a critical stage of magnetic potential and the resultant energy pulses from one pole to the other resulting in "the heat of blissful awakening... the greater the stored charge, the more intense the bliss will be." As a result, the system has earned testimonials like these:

“I have read well over 200 books and attended over 15 meta-physical seminars over the past 20 years. I experienced more positive results in 8 short hours with you than in all the others books and programs combined.”

“The bliss is incredible. It increases on a daily level and is starting to magnetize everything into a divine flow in my life. Life has become an adventure of congruent energy tied as one into a spiral of peace and joy. It really does get this good...wow.” 

“The practice of Kunlun can breathe very real awakenings and healing experiences into our lives. It charges us from the very core of our being and opens us to the incredible experience that is life.”

What is Kunlun Nei Gung? It’s a rare form of Taoist breathing practice that has its origins in the 7th century. This practice is composed of three basic levels of breathing. The first level opens the body's nervous system, with the result of awakening of the golden dragon, or magnetic body. The second level involves breath retention practice that generates and circulates the body's magnetic field and awakens the brain's dormant potentials. The third level brings the practitioner back to the physical level of being.

The end result of Kunlun Spontaneous Nei Gung is to awake the practitioner's magnetic potentials, the "bliss-body", the expression of the dormant potential of the mind, and to understand the unified law that governs all matter, energy, and form. Wow, what else can you ask for?

You can find out more about Max from the kunlunbliss.com website. From the site, here's a bit more about Max:

"Max Christensen has spent his life studying and coming to understand a wealth of traditional practices of indigenous peoples of North America, Hawai'i and East Asia. Within these traditions, he is known by various names including Lama Ngakpa Dorje (Tibetan), Ching Fung Dao Shr (Chinese Taoist), Sifu Max and others.

Studying under Wudang Master Wu Xiao Deng of Hubei province, Max started on the path to realization in 1966 at the age of six. At this early age he began learning a wide range of lesser known esoteric and alchemical practices. These have included various forms of qi gong, or the absorption of heavenly energy into oneself, and nei gung, the power to transmit energy or qi from oneself to another.

Max has received training in Snake Bagua, Taoist thunder practices, as well as Snake Chod and Mongolian medical practices. He learned the rare practices of the Kunlun tradition, including Kunlun formless-form nei gung, and Red Dragon palm nei gung.

Later in life, Max received empowerment of the Santig Dorje Phurba from Ralo Rinpoche at the Phodrang Monastery in Nepal. Of the Nyingma order of Tibetan Buddhism, Ralo Rinpoche gave him the title "Ngakpa Dorje" which identifies him as one who has the power to awaken dormant powers within.

No doubt about it, Max Christensen's Kunlun school offers some of the most powerful teachings and techniques for spiritual awakening ever developed on Earth. Unfortunately, he's retired from public workshops and seminars.

The Highest Senior Level Instructor

So anyway, when I heard that the next best thing to Max – the "highest senior level instructor of Kunlun Nei Gung" was coming to the United States, I signed up immediately. And a couple of weeks later, I found myself on a beautiful sprawling ranch in Trout Lake, Washington... with meadow that offered a spectacular view of Mt. Adams. So here I was, ready to learn the secrets of the ages.

So who is this Kan and can he do what Max does?

My first introduction to Kan comes when Chris Tittle, the event producer and Kunlun student, introduces Kan by showing three camera phone photos on his projector to the class. “Last night, Kan came to our room, excited by these pictures he took." Kan was alone in the meadow and felt an ethereal presence. The meadow was pitch dark and the sky filled with stars – it was a new moon and the Milky Way was bright enough that I felt that I could reach out and touch it. Kan took out his cameraphone - which has no flash - and took a number of pictures of this "presence". No one had any idea what the image of the figure was until the next day, when someone realized it was the image of Kwan Yin.

I will upload these images as a way of introducing Kan. I’d heard of "psychic photography" before, where certain photographers are able to photograph ethereal bodies... but I've never seen it myself. The first pictures are of something materializing, then a picture of what looks like Kuan Yin, the Goddess of Mercy. Pretty amazing.

Anyway, after class, I sat down with Kan and we did an in depth interview. Here’s what I learned about Kan, the man:

At the age of twenty, Kan Sasaki was a rugby player on the All Japan team, when he suffered a spinal injury that left him paralyzed from the waist down. He was crushed when the doctors told him he would never walk again and had to accept the idea of life as a paraplegic.

However, one evening, an oddly dressed stranger entered his room and chatted with him, and eventually said, “It’s time for you to learn how to control your life energy.” He then taught Kan how do zhan zhuang (aka, pole standing) – a qigong exercise position, which Kan had to do in bed. The stranger disappeared immediately afterward and when asked about him, none of the nurses or staff had any idea who the stranger was.

Inspired, Kan held the posture every day, all day long, as he laid there watching television. The doctors assumed he was simply in denial, and one doctor even told him he was crazy and that he needed to accept reality. However, after a few weeks, Kan noticed that he could move his toes ever so slightly. After a few more weeks, he could wiggle them freely. After a few months his spinal cord had nearly repaired itself and after a year, he was walking again. Life had returned to normal for him, except for one thing… this experience had given him psychic abilities, and he was able to see energy.

Inspired by his results, Kan pursued formal qigong training and spent three years traveling the length and breadth of Japan, in search of a true master. After this period, he expanded his travels to other countries – eventually traveling to 95 countries over a span of 20 years. He traveled through China, Taiwan, India, Africa and the Middle East in search of knowledge. He studied many martial arts. Many meditation systems. Many mystery schools.

On these travels, Kan met quite a few remarkable beings. On the island of Bali, he heard about a holy man, so he sought him out. He found a man who is always praying, and literally emanated compassion energy. In the Middle East, he heard about a secret temple and managed to get a rare invitation to visit. After five days of travel through the desert, blindfolded and on horseback, he arrived at a secret temple in the middle of nowhere. The teachings were very ancient, based on Egyptian practices which had evolved into a Sufi tradition. So many wonderful travels, but still… after so many years, Kan had not found a teacher who filled his soul.

And then one day, he met a psychic who said, “You are very special, and are about to meet your teacher. But you need to return to Japan.” Kan burst out, “Japan! That was twenty years ago that I exhausted Japan!” Nevertheless, Kan returned, and finally, after long last, he met Max.

It was in 2005 at a seminar in Japan. Max immediately noticed that Kan had a special quality to his spirit, and that his energy channels were naturally open. As a result, Max allowed cameras to film him demonstrating the "energy games" from the temple, for the first time. (The resulting footage became known as the infamous Taoist Spiritual Power DVD.) At that moment, Kan knew that he had finally met his master.

Over the following weeks, Max directly transmitted to Kan many awakenings, and Kan was finally, thankfully, irrevocably able to see and understand things with greater clarity than he had ever known. From that day, he became Max’s #1 student.

At a Kunlun Workshop

So here I am, half the interview over and I’m back in the class with Kan. We’re sitting in a circle of maybe 50 students, from all walks of life. Kan is teaching a lot of stuff. I gotta say, with Kunlun, you get your money’s worth. In two days, we’ll learn a dozen practices, including universal mudra practice, Red Phoenix meditation, Golden Flower meditation, Kunlun Bliss meditation, Pole Star breathing, and so on and so forth. This would normally take, say, ten or fifteen years before your master would teach all of this stuff. But Kan is a veritable firehose of spiritual knowledge…

We’re doing a meditation that produces spontaneous kriyas. Most new students will experience tremendous heat and sweating, followed by uncontrollable trembling, laughing and crying. Everyone’s eyes are closed, but I’m sneaking a peek. I see bouncing legs, arched backs, people doing slow movements and others acting like autistic kids. And there are two people on the floor – having fallen out of their chairs during violent kriyas. Plus, uncontrolled laughter, grunts, one fellow is speaking in tongues. I am, however, not feeling anything. That’s me, ever the scientist. I was schooled as a physicist at Caltech, and it’s all about learning to see and tell the truth about natural phenomena. And right now, I’m not feeling anything.

Kan walks over. He puts his hand in front of my chest, as if giving me some energy, and then whispers, “Wah, you have good energy!” Yeah right, I bet you say that to all the gals! He walks away. I just let go, breath, smile. Then I close my eyes. And sonuvagun I start going into kriyas. My upper body starts swirling as my legs bounce. The speed of rotation gets faster and faster, and pretty soon, I’m still, but this intense spiral energy is spinning around the top of my head. Zing, zing, ziiiing… and it becomes pure tone.

Because Kan is an evolved being in his own right, his classes are not simply a repeat of what Max has been teaching over the past two years. He presents a set of practices that reflects his being and experiences and learnings, focused on opening the compassionate heart and grounding one's energy. It’s remarkable work.

Black Smoke Exorcism

After the session, I’m in the lounge area waiting for Kan to finish the interview. A young man, with a pained, clouded look on his face, asked for a private healing, so Kan and his translator, Shoko, went upstairs to do the reading and healing. Shoko is Chinese, but lived much of her life in Japan. She’s not a Kunlun practitioner, but a professional translator who was available last minute. She comes down first, and has this excited look on her face. She comes over to me and says, “I actually saw something miraculous! I was hoping to see something strange this weekend and I did! It was very exciting!”

“What did you see?”

“When Kan, healed the young man, I saw black smoke come out of him! During the healing! It’s amazing!” Wow, that’s pretty spectacular. So I asked her to relate the story to me detail…

Then Kan does some sort of energy thing for about five or ten minutes. Suddenly the young man's body jerks up and down, and his stomach looks extended and then suddenly, some smoke comes out of his body and his face is so distorted that he looks like really scary devil. I was little worried and scared that this black smoke, which is bad chi, might infect me with bad luck. I really wanted for Kan to hurry up so I could get out of there. About three minutes later, the young man stops moving then Kan continues with his energy work for a few minutes. The funny thing is afterwards, he looked like different person – smiling and really calm. Kan tells him that he now has a 'new body foundation'."

Then Kan comes down the stairwell, and I say, “She says that she saw something miraculous.” Kan smiles and says, “Yeah, black smoke. It happens sometimes.” A little later, the young man comes down, and he looks radiant and happy.

Remember to Smile

After this, Kan and I complete our interview. My first question is about the very first time he met Max. Kan thinks about this and says, “The very first time I saw him, he was doing a demonstration. I realized that Max was special because usually when I see one person act, his energy flares, and the person he is with – whether fighting or just talking – flares his energy in response. But with Max, when students demonstrated attacking him, his responsive energy flared with no delay. At exactly the same time, like a mirror. He’s the only human being I’ve ever seen who could do that.

I ask about martial arts. What was your favorite system? The answer? I-Chuan. He was a secret student of the disciple of Master Wang Xiangzhai, the founder of I-Chuan (‘I’ means intention and ‘chuan boxing’, or the martial art of intention and pure consciousness). Why was he a secret student? Because he’s Japanese, and after the war, it was verboten to teach Japanese the national art of China.

I ask about tantra. Kan responds, “Level III of Kunlun is tantric training. But it’s a form you do with your clothes on.” I ask for more detail, and he sighs. “Ah, it’s very complicated. Each body is different, so the alchemy is different. Also, it’s only meant for those who wish to undergo deep training.”

Finally, I’m out of questions. So I ask, do you have any last words of wisdom for our readers? He thinks for a few seconds, and says, “The most important thing is to just be. This actually means that you must learn how to stop the noise in your mind, and wake up. After you wake up, you can be… “

“Oh yes, one more thing. Remember to smile. You can’t imagine how important that is for your energy. Smile!”

And with that, my time with Kan was at an end.

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Ed. Note: When I got home, the event producer was kind enough to send me the ethereal shots that Kan had taken with his cameraphone in the dark. Scientist that I am, I could not resist examining the metadata from the files. Sure enough, they were taken with a Docomo P905i. Check! Timestamps – 2009-09-18T22:36 - 2009-09-18T22:38 – etc. Check! These were definitely taken on his Japanese cameraphone, and at the time they say it happened.

Yep, this looks like the real thing. Fingers crossed...

Eyes wide open, I enter the world of Kunlun Bliss.

If you want to find out more, go to www.kunlunbliss.com.