The Strike of LightningWood

Recently when I was in Hong Kong on a yearly meeting with my Feng Shui master, I received a call from Eric. When I called him back on the next morning (Wednesday), he told me a friend from his previous work place suspects that his sister is possessed. Eric did ask his friend, before the incident where did his sister went and what did she do? And the information that was relayed to Eric was she went to a funeral and after returning home on Sunday evening - she will cry and laugh on her own for no apparent reason.

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Eric already told his friend J, to use the Shi Gong Fan to fan the possessed lady. J is also a temple member and disciple, which was given a Taoist fan on Chao Yuan Zhu Shi 潮源祖師 Celebration last year. However J and his friend was reluctant to do it, because they are worried something might go wrong.

One of the Taoist Fan in Kam Dong San

Eric also suggested to them that why not use the Lightningwood (wood taken from trees that are struck by lightning) and place it on her head. Logically that would be able to drive any minor to medium spirit that have just resided in the person. Anyhow they did not do it.

Thursday morning, Eric gave me a call and told me that everything is back to normal and the person will not be coming up to temple. The details of how it was settled was the brother of the lady who was possessed went to a few temples to ask for help, and was given talisman to ingest among other things. But his sister still repeat the action of laughing and crying for no reason.

Lightning Stroke TEAK Wood

After everything was done as he was almost running out of help, he decided to try what Eric has advised. He place a Lightningwood in her sister's pocket, the lightning wood was inscribed with some protective 花字 (Taoist spell symbols). Instantaneously she recovered and is alert of her surrounding. Eric's friend was very relief that his sister recovered, even though initially he doubted whether 1 just piece of wood would be able to help his sister.


Upon further conversation, they told Eric that before she went to the funeral, that very same day she went to a Taoist temple to request for invitation of deity into her body 請師父. This process is somewhat popular, in which certain temple do offer to invite Taoist deity as the person's protector. It is what we would called the 3rd Generation Trance Medium. In which the high level spirit will come close to the cultivator and aid them in whatever questions or problems they have dealing with the spiritual world.

Every process does have its inherent risk. For the lady that was possessed, most likely she went to a temple that did not invite deities into her body instead they could have invited something else into her. Therefore if someone who really wants to cultivate as medium or invite of deity into their body, first they have to know very clearly what is the reason for them in doing so - having the wrong reason is sometime enough to drive you over the edge.

Why did the lightningwood worked? Whenever there is lightning strike in nature, all animals run for cover. It is also a popular belief that when a lightning strike something on the ground, it means that the area have some bad spirits or demon, and heaven just send some bolt shock to take care of it. Imagine a thunderbolt can reach up to 100M Volts - that strike alone would be able to turn ANY spirits into smithereens! Therefore the tree that was stricken by lightning, it's wood would have the strong imprint of the Yang energy. Which is the perfect raw material to use in exorcism.