回忆篇：穿着西装的影子

2008年6月，我在自己的网志上发过一篇文章，到今天都还有人会提起。事情的起点，是客人阿杰传来一则很着急的信息——他说家里一直有黑影飘来飘去。

在那之前的几个月，我帮他做例行的风水看屋时，在他过世父亲的房间里，感觉到一股很沉、完全不会动的气场。后来我入定去看究竟发生了什么事，结果在楼梯口遇到一个穿着笔挺西装的灵体。我问他为什么还留在这里不走，他的答案简单到让人心酸：

“这里是我的家。根本没有人请我上祖先牌位。”

第二天我打电话给阿杰，问他：“你爸爸是不是穿着西装入殓的？”——你知道的，那个年代，马来西亚传统华人家庭很少会这样做。阿杰一听，整个人都呆掉了，因为真的被我说中。后来我们正式把他爸爸请上了神主牌，那些黑影就再也没有出现过。

二、核心问题：临终那一刻的潜意识牵扯

阿杰的爸爸之所以卡在人间，不是因为有什么怨恨，而是因为他完全乱了方向。他这一辈子，潜意识深深地根植在道教的传统里面。可是在他临终前的那段日子，病痛缠身的时候，家人竟然逼他转换宗教。

当一个人在快断气的时候，你忽然扭转他的宗教归属，他对那个新信仰根本就没有用了一辈子才种下去的潜意识根基。一过世，整个人就迷失了——新的路他还没有真正归属，旧的路又被切断了，变成两头都到不了岸，卡在月台的中间。

当年我写下的那句话，到今天还是那么真实：我们要够爱自己的家人，爱到让他们自己选择，人生最后这一程想搭什么交通工具。

三、2026年的成长印记：十八年修行教会我的事

现在回头看2008年那篇文章，我发现自己当时只把它当成一单“灵界运作”的问题来处理——做场法事、送走灵体、搞定这件事。

快二十年过去了，今天我再重新看这件事，对阿杰的家人多了很多同理心，但对于“灵魂自主权”这件事，我的立场反而比以前更加坚定。这些年来，我见过一模一样的情节上演了几十次：子女一片好心，因为怕爸爸妈妈“去错地方”，临终前才硬逼他们转教。

他们看不到的，是这样子做所造成的灵性上的摩擦。

到了2026年，我们常常说人要活出真我、对自己的人生要有自主权，但很少人谈到对自己死亡的那份自主权。真正的灵性成熟，是去尊重一个人用一辈子建立起来的内在罗盘，就算他的罗盘跟你的不一样。你不可能硬生生把一个灵魂，塞进一个他根本没有用一辈子去筑成的模子里面。

四、这股能量，今天摆在哪里

如果你现在正照顾着年纪大或病重的至亲，你很可能会有股很强的冲动，想透过自己信仰的眼光去“救”他。但是，你能给他最伟大的孝心、最深刻的爱，其实就是——空间。

是那种，让他的潜意识可以安心地靠回他人生最强壮的时候，一路支撑着他的那些符号、祷文和传统，舒舒服服走完最后一程的空间。

The Deathbed Conversion Trap: Why You Shouldn't "Change the Bus Halfway"

The Flashback: A Shadow in a Western Suit

Back in June 2008, I published a post on this journal that still generates conversations today. It started with a frantic message from a client named Jack, who was seeing moving shadows in his home.

Months earlier, during a routine Feng Shui audit, I had felt a heavy, unmoving presence in his late father’s bedroom. When I later entered meditative stabilization to see what was happening, I encountered a spirit on the staircase wearing a sharp Western suit. When I asked why he was still there, his answer was heartbreakingly simple:

*"This is my home. Nobody invited me to the ancestral tablet."*

When I called Jack the next day to ask if his father had been buried in a Western suit—a rare choice for traditional Chinese families in Malaysia at the time—Jack was stunned. It was true. We resolved the issue by properly inviting his father to the ancestral tablet, and the shadows vanished.

2. The Core Problem: Subconscious Ties at the Exit Door

The reason Jack’s father was stuck on the physical plane wasn't malice; it was confusion. Throughout his life, his subconscious mind was deeply mapped to Taoist traditions. But in his final days, facing a terminal illness, his family pressured him to switch religions.

When you change a person’s spiritual alignment right at the exit door, they have no deep, lifelong subconscious roots in that new faith. When they pass, they become disoriented. They don't belong to the new path yet, and they've been cut off from the old one. They are stuck between stations.

As I wrote back then: **We must love our family enough to let them choose their own vehicle for the final journey.**

3. The 2026 Growth Ring: What 18 Years of Practice Has Taught Me

Looking back at that 2008 post, I realize I treated it as a spiritual mechanics problem—perform the ritual, move the spirit, fix the haunting.

Nearly two decades later, I look at that case with much more empathy for the family, but an even firmer stance on spiritual sovereignty. In the years since, I have seen this exact scenario play out dozens of times. Well-meaning children, driven by the fear of their parents "going to the wrong place," force a deathbed conversion.

What they don't see is the spiritual friction it causes.

In 2026, we talk a lot about living our truth and having autonomy over our lives. But we rarely talk about autonomy over our deaths. True spiritual maturity means respecting a person's lifelong internal compass, even if it doesn't match your own. You cannot force a soul into a mold it hasn't spent a lifetime building.

4. Where the Energy Sits Today

If you are caring for an aging or ill loved one, the temptation to "save" them through your own spiritual lens is powerful. But the greatest act of filial piety or love you can offer is space—the space to let their subconscious mind rely on the symbols, prayers, and traditions that comforted them when they were strong.

Don't force them to change buses halfway across the bridge. Let them cross in the vehicle they know.

阿妈与泰国法术

讲到我对泰国 Wicha 的着迷，其实几乎跟我的修行之路同个时期开始，都已经超过 25 年咯。

我的第一枚佛牌，是过世的老爸给我的。那枚佛牌是他以前在机场做工的时候，跟一个行脚僧讨回来的。

那天一拿到佛牌，晚上我喝水的时候，竟然傻傻地咬到玻璃杯。杯子直接碎掉，碎玻璃全部在我嘴巴里面，可是一点伤都没有。

这是我十岁左右，第一次体验到泰国佛牌的神奇。

我对泰国佛牌和 Wicha 的那种着迷，就是这股力量，让我后来认识到很多在泰国传承里真正有料、有本事的修行人。

不过因为语言障碍，我并没有真正深入去修泰国 Wicha，反而走了道法那条路。

但是我对泰国 Wicha 的兴趣从来没有停过，我还是不断地去找不同的老师和师傅，问他们怎么做咒、怎么做仪式，同时也去了解泰国 Wicha 和道法之间到底有什么不同。

大概十年前，有一天老爸突然跟我讲，原来过世的阿嫲有教过他一个咒。

那个咒是跟控制天气有关的。

他跟我分享，说他小时候住在稻田旁边的屋子，每次看到有很大的风暴要吹过来，阿嫲就会开始念这个咒。

念完之后，那个本来很够力的大风暴，就会变成普通的下雨罢了。

那个时候，我也不确定阿嫲家里到底有没有人是修泰国 Wicha 的，我只知道她是混血的，一半泰国、一半华人。

现在回想起来，我刚开始修行、在户外做法事的时候，十次里面九次天空都是放晴的。

当时我没有想太多，因为我们自己阳法的传承，很多重要的仪式就是需要阳光的。

当然这些年来，我也有一个印尼 bomoh 的好朋友，他给过我一条他所谓的“可以改变天气”的 tasbih（念珠），跟我说里面有 khodam，可以帮助达到这个效果。

我有试吗？有。

有没有效？还真的有效咧。

但是那个东西要一直念经来维持，对我来说真的太麻烦了，我顶不顺。

其实也还有其他改变云层的技巧，还有道法里面的一些方法，但是那些方法用太多是会伤身体的。

我曾经一次过玩太多次，结果搞到得了严重的肺炎。那个是另外一篇部落格的故事了。

有一个很资深的老师傅曾经跟我讲过一句话：

“天要下雨，就给它下啦。为什么要去干扰道的循环？”

Grandma and Thai Wicha

My initial fascination with Thai Wicha starts almost the same time when I first started my cultivation journey more than 25years ago. My first amulet was given to me by my late dad, the one he requested from a travelling monk he met at airport where he used to work. 

After receiving the amulet, that evening itself, while drinking water I somehow carelessly bit into the glass. The shattered glass pieces in the mouth didn’t cause any injury. This is the first experience of Thai amulets when I was about 10 years old.

My fascination with Thai amulets and Wicha are the main reasons it has drawn me to know so many good and capable practitioners in the Thai Lineage. Due to language barrier, I did not pursue into Thai Wicha as oppose to Tao Fa. 

Nevertheless my interest in Thai Wicha didn’t stop, I pursued to interview and find out from many different Teachers and Masters on how their spells and rituals are done. Also at the same time finding out the difference between Thai Wicha and Tao Fa.

About 10 years ago, my dad one day told me that my late grandma actually have taught him a mantra@spell. The spell is related to weather control. He shared with me how my grandma would chant this spell if she saw impending big storm approaching their home in the paddy fields when he young , and how the storm would calm into normal rain. 

At that time, I didn’t know whether anyone in my grandma’s family was practicing Thai Wicha or not, I knew for a fact she was half Thai half Chinese. Looking back, when I started cultivating and doing rituals outdoors, clear skies are the norms for 90% of the case. I never thought much about it as our own lineage of Yang Fa 阳法 requires sunlight during most important rituals.

Of course throughout the years, I have also had an Indonesian Bomoh good friend that passed me his so called ‘weather altering’ tasbih@chant beads that he told me has khodam in it to help in this effect. Did I try it? Yes. Did it worked? You bet. But the chanting to upkeep the item was too much of a tedious for me. 

There are also other techniques of altering clouds and techniques with Tao Fa, however those method is overused will be harmful to the body. I once had a serious bout of pheumonia after  experimenting with it too many times. That is another blog write up.

One of the senior knowledgeable Master once told me,” if Heaven wanted to rain, let it rain la” Why do you need to disturb the cycle of the Tao? 

‘我家很干净‘

 我收到老同学兼好友的求助，说他表妹家疑似闹鬼。他也把我太太的电话给了表妹，方便她直接联系我们。

各位读者先别急着下定论，首先，任何涉及疑似闹鬼、灵体或附身的个案，都必须经过我们庙宇处理，毫无例外。意思是事主必须亲自到庙里来，在神明面前求个清楚，确认是否有灵异干扰的迹象或可能性。

这事不是我说有就有、说没有就没有的。事主必须亲自前来，在神明跟前报上姓名、生辰八字和住址，然后亲手拿起筊杯（Puay），亲自掷筊，通过神明沟通来询问——没有乩童，没有自我幻想，也不透过庙里任何其他人传话。如果按科学概率来算，你得到“是”答案的可能性是33.33%，其余都是“否”。

说白了，你要得到“是”这个正确答案的概率本来就不高，正常情况下很少会真正遇上灵异事件。

表妹确实来了我们庙，按照规定的程序做了，结果第一次掷筊就问出了“是”。但这只是过滤程序的开始，并非结束。当她得到“是”的答案后，我们庙的资深管事万先生通知了我，我接着就得进一步做灵界查探，看背后究竟是怎么回事。

当晚我进入禅定状态后，看到一个身形略丰满的女灵体，站在一位老妇人身边。女灵对我微笑，让我知道她是跟着他们从医院回来的。然后我望向那位老妇人，她低着头，不看我。当下我猜想那老妇人是我朋友表妹的妈妈。我再定心细看，发觉那老妇人体内仿佛有另一个灵在动着，像是个半透明的人想要挣脱出来，而老妇人依旧低着头，忙着吃东西。

好，这已确认有两个灵体依附。我出定后，再向神明确认数量和处理的步骤。神明指示我：“你还没看清楚——再仔细看。”

我再次入定观察那位老妇人，这才猛然发现，她并不是表妹的母亲，而是另一个早已附在她身上的灵。所以总共是三个灵体。

与此同时，按照神明指示，我必须在禅定中远程封印他们家的神台香炉，以免那些灵体利用神位躲在屋里。

先说说我同学表妹的背景：她父母年事已高，需要经常出入医院接受治疗。我也处理过好几宗个案，因为经常进出医院，身体虚弱，加上家中没有稳固的灵界防护，就有可能惹来灵体附身。

当晚我为他们准备好了所需的符咒。隔天刚好庙里有神诞庆典，我便把符和交代事项交给万先生，让他稍后联络事主来领取。

傍晚，我同学DN再次传讯问我，他表妹是不是已来拿了符？我猜想万先生因为庙务繁忙，还没联系表妹。到了晚上，DN转发了一张截图给我，内容是表妹的哥哥从吉隆坡回来，告诉他说“我家气场很干净”，还说他妹妹能量很强之类的话。我看到我朋友在该对话中回复：“你妹妹已经问过我朋友/师傅，确认家里有灵体。”

我在和朋友的对话中纠正了他。不是我替你表妹查事，是你表妹亲自请教神明的！她用自己的双手拿起筊杯，求神明确认——从头到尾，没有别人替她确认，更没有人手把手或精神上影响她，要她接受家里有灵异干扰这件事。

我们庙里处理所有灵界个案，完全是义务的，简单来说就是免费，我们不要求任何费用，我也不收取分文作为时间的补偿。因为我是自愿献身，从创庙至今二十多年来，一直带领这两间庙。

收到DN这则消息后，我立刻致电万先生，问他是否联系了DN的表妹。万先生转述说，在我把符交给他之后，他已经尝试致电她。他告诉我，起初没人接，后来有一次接通了，却马上被挂断。他也试过发WhatsApp给她，但没有回复。

所以我们只能假设，DN的表妹对我们庙的联系，比任何灵异干扰都更感到害怕——很可能是在她哥哥“扫描”过家里并说一切干净之后。

我也交代了万先生，如果事主有回复的话，请通知她我们得知他们家问题已解决，因此本案就此了结。

现在，读者可能在想，到底哪边才对，有没有灵体干扰呢？你回顾整个过程，从事主查询，到后来音讯全无（而当初之所以会怀疑有异，是因为她家女佣被人拍肩膀，家人也开始在家里听到怪声）。

很多人误以为道教庙宇的主要目的，是无条件帮助所有人。但道教只渡有缘人。我们不会硬装好人，或热脸贴冷屁股地去帮那些没有求助意愿的人。事实上，从小乘佛教的角度来看，我们助人的标准甚至更为严格。

在我们这一行，那些没办法或无法被帮助的个案，我们归类为“业障深重”。结案。

My House Energy is Clean

 I received a call for help from my schoolmate and good friend regarding his female cousin house have a possibility of haunting. He had also passed my wife number to his cousin so that they could contact us directly. 

Before any of readers of the blog get ahead of yourself, first and foremost any cases regarding possibility of haunting, spirit or possession MUST go through our templeS no exception. Means the patrons have to come personally to temple to seek for clarification whether there is any signs or possibility of spirit disturbance. 

It is not up to me to say whether there is or there is none. The patrons have to come themselves, announce their name, date of birth and address to the deities, then they pick up the oracle ‘Puay’ with their own hands and throw the Puay to ask personally through the communication with Deities - no medium no self fantasy or through words of any other person of the temple. If base on odds scientifically, your answer have a possibility of Yes is 33.33% will remaining % is a NO. 

Plainly the odds are stacking against you on getting a YES answer which is correct and normally very seldom you will have spiritual encounters. 

Well the cousin did showed up at our temple, she did what the required procedure was and she got a YES on the oracle on her first ask. That is not the end of the filtering procedure. When she gotten a YES then my temple Senior Operations Mr Wan informed me and I then have to do the further spiritual checking on what is the real story behind.

When I went into meditative stabilisation in that very evening, I saw 1 lady spirit kind of plump standing beside an old lady. The spirit was smiling at me, she let me know she followed them from the hospital.  Then I looked at the old lady, her head was turning downwards not looking at me. At that moment I assume the old lady was my friend’s cousins mum. Then I peer closer in my mind, I saw the person sort of have another spirit moving inside the body. It’s like a semi invisible person trying to break out of the body, all this while the old lady was head down, and busying eating things.

Ok that was the confirmation I needed that there is 2 spirit attached. I came out of my meditative stabilisation and re-confirm with my Deities the number and also steps and process to take. Deities told me, you haven’t looked clearly - look carefully again. 

I went back in and looked again at the old lady - then only I realised the old lady isn’t the cousin’s mum but an additional spirit already attached to her as well. So total 3.

At the same time, under Deities instructions, I have to remotely seal their altar urn when in meditative state for fear that the spirits might use their altar to reside within the house.

Brief background on my friend’s cousin - both her parents due to elder age, frequently have to go to hospital for procedures regularly. I have also encountered few cases whereby due to regular hospital visits, there is a possibility of spirit attachment when the body is weak and without strong spiritual security at home. 

After I have prepared the required talisman for their case that same evening, the next day due to Deity Celebration at temple I have passed the talisman and instructions to Mr Wan for him to later contact the patron to come and collect it.

By early evening, my friend DN message me again asking whether his cousin have come by to collect the talisman? I assume Mr WAN did not yet contact the cousin due to our busy day at temple. Then by later evening, DN forward me a screenshot message with content of his lady cousin’s brother who just came back from KL telling him ‘My house energy is very clean’ and additionally with message his sister energy is strong and so on. I saw my friend reply within the message - your sister consulted my friend/Sifu and confirm the house have spirit.

I corrected my friend in my conversation with him. I did not consult your cousin. It was your cousin whom consulted the Deities! She use her own palms to picked up the oracle and asked for confirmation - nobody other than her gotten the confirmation nor had a hand or mentally influence her to accept there is spiritual disturbance.

Our temple in handling all spiritual cases is on a pro bono basis in simple terms FREE, we don’t ask for payments nor would I ask for any payment for compensation of my time. As I volunteer my life in leading the 2 temples from the beginning of the formation till now (20+ years)

As soon as I received this message from DN, I quickly called Mr Wan asking him whether he has contacted DN’s cousin. Mr Wan then relayed to me, he has already tried to called her after I have passed the talisman to her. He told me at first there was no picked up then 1 time the phone picked up and was hang up immediately. He also tried to WhatsApp her but no reply.

So we could only assume, that DN’s cousin was so fearful of our temple contacting her more than any spirit disturbance, most likely after her brother’s scanning of their house and saying everything was clear.

I have also instructed Mr Wan, if the patron ever reply kindly inform her that we know the family already solved the problem therefore we have closed the case. 

Now as a reader you might be thinking which is correct, have spirit disturbance or not? When you looked at the flow process from enquiry till their no answer ( and the suspicion started due to the person’s maid experience someone tap her shoulder, they started hearing weird noises in the house) 

Many mistaken that Taoist Temple main purpose is to help everyone without filter of any kind. Taoist will only help those without affinity. We don’t force or hard up to appear to be nice and eager to help even those that did not ask for it. In fact the criteria to help is even more strict comparing it from Buddhism perspective. 

Those that cannot or unable to be help in our industry we classified it as Heavy Karma. Case Closed.

Necromancers and Continuing of Lineage

 Necromancy (/ˈnɛkrəmænsi/)^[1][2] is the practice of magic involving communication with the dead by summoning their spirits as apparitions or visions for the purpose of divination; imparting the means to foretell future events and discover hidden knowledge. Sometimes categorized under death magic, the term is occasionally also used in a more general sense to refer to black magic or witchcraft a whole.

When we discuss about White and so call Dark Magic, usually the discussion of continuation of lineages for these branch of magic is often not mentioned at all. 

Many would presume, anyone would be able to learn or on the opposite end of spectrum only those who have been chosen can learn it.

It is a mixture of both criteria. This blog post we will specifically mentioned on the Necromancers continuation of lineage especially within traditions of South East Asia and also Asia as a whole.

Death Magic or those who has ability to communicate, invite, summon, control and even banish spirits/ghost are those belonging to the necromancy branch of dark magic. Dark in a sense here means their modus operandi deals with passed away human in forms of  spirits, ghost, entities and other forms of dark energies.

In actual fact, dark or black magic does not mean it is evil, just that the branches of magic uses ritual that will be consider dark to the human psyche.

In normal White Magic traditions, continuation of lineage usually is through initiations of lineage with their particular Main Deities be it Angels/Devas some can also be different forms of Higher Spirits/Entities that has direct link to their lineages or descendants.

For White Magic, when the continuation of lineage occurs usually is the Main Lineage Holder pass on their main lineage object(s) that hold significant meaning and power to the disciple that is entrusted upon continuing the lineage. Usually these objects are sacred objects such as staff, sceptre or any material related to creation of white magic process.

For necromancers lineage and line however, the lineage is passed on with not only sacred objects within the lineage but also the personal relics of previous masters.

For example, I have known a necromancer lineage in which each generation of master will pass on their own skull piece (near to brow bones which is 3rd eye location)

If the lineage span for 5 generations then the current lineage holder would have at least 4 skull piece of their past Masters. It is said that each generation of lineage holder would need to acquire their just passed away  master’s skull piece in order for deceased master to move on spiritually. If it is not done, the lineage would have a locked curse to hold their consciousness till oblivion.

There are other necromancer lineage however that would need the ashes of their previous master to be made into chanting beads as holy object for the current lineage holder.

Although from the outlook, this practice seems like taboo, however for necromancers, whom are use to harnessing the power of spirits this is logical for the continuation of lineage and also their previous Masters to bless each subsequent generations