Mystical Power of Wood

In any practice of sorcery or magic, the use of right raw ingredients are utmost important. Lack of even a single ingredient can sometime cause the intended effect to fail. Raw ingredient on most cases reflect the natural characteristics of the intended effect plan by the practitioner.

 For example in types of wood used, there are practically hundreds of variety with different type of effect. Effect means that how the particular ingredient, in this case a type of wood will cause the energy change or aura change to the person. Some wood in their natural environment will cause wild animals to fear it's smell. Some will cause other plants/trees to grow in a particular manner when it's species is growing in the area. The list can go on and on.

 One of the simple way to use harness the effect of this wood on a person is to have them wear it on their body. The wood's natural energy print will cause changes in the person's aura. Aura and energy prints are pick up by our unconscious mind. Energy prints or aura on most cases are not visible to the naked eye unless the person is trained or have a tendency to differentiate subtle colors through their eyes.

Agarwood beads bangle and other woods to be combine.

 For my Agarwood 沉香 bead bangle, I am adding the White Wood of Submission, the Red Wood of Submission, Yellow Wood of Submission and also what is called the King of Wood. It is said that when the tree of Wood of Submission grows in a particular area, all the trees in the area would grow in a bowing shape towards the tree. King of Wood, is mainly use for healing. The wood when it is burn, will produce a smell which is unfavorable to spirit entities and also wild animals.

Why Agarwood beads bangle? Agarwood have been long favored by meditators. Prices of old Agarwood can go up to hundreds of thousands per kilogram. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agarwood. Why do meditators like the smell of agarwood? Well according to high cultivators, when they reach a certain deep stage of meditation, their nose will pick up a sense of aroma fragrance. When they are awake, they search for the closest smell of this fragrance to remind them of that state of meditation. Agarwood is the only wood that has the closest smell to what they have experienced.

Holes that are drilled and will be added the other woods into it.

Completed add-on

 I will write more on the usage of different types of wood in my future postings. This serves as a preview :). I have also used wood with natural characteritics of warding wild animals and add it with Taoist talisman to serve as a wand for making spiritual demarcation lines at any given place. That is of course in future postings.

I can see Boddhisatvas and Angels......

Many in cultivation wish to see higher beings such as boddhisatvas, deities and Buddhas. Some would like to be touched by angels, know that there is a higher form of power or the existence of real unconditional love towards them or among human beings.

Actually for many of us, we do not need to have high cultivation to recognize a Boddhisatva or Angels in our human realm. They are everywhere, if only we search and see with our eye unconditionally and free of judgement. This video highlights one of them.

Rejoice ! To be able to witness such unconditional love in action. Definitely all of us can learn a thing or two from him.

Centipede Pearl 蜈蚣珠

Centipede pearl size in comparison to a grain of rice

 I have finally added a pair of centipede pearl into my collection among many other mystical stuff ;). This pair of genuine centipede pearl came into my collection through a very experienced and knowledgeable source of centipede pearls. Since I have promised him that I will write about these pearls, after I have confirmed that they are genuine.

So what are centipede pearls? Centipede pearls are fossil like pearls that are form on either the crown of the centipede, at the tail of the centipede or at the mouth of the centipede. The micro bite marks usually can be seen on genuine pearls. Why do I stress on genuine? Because on the internet and world at large, there is a lot people selling fake glass, silica grain and even rock and claim it to be centipede pearls.

Why do people look for these pearls? Well it is claim that when the pearls are able to help the owner with good luck and in particular luck that involves risk ventures for example gambling. Because of the centipede swift action in nature, it is also deem to have the characteristics of swift clutch on opportunities that arise for the owner. Some traditional practitioners will use centipede pearls to aid in treating many different ailments and sickness. 

However long time legend has it that owner of crown centipede pearls would have the ability to see through walls/barriers or will be grant the ability to have deep instinctive abilities in any situation. Seeing through walls? I think we can pretty much do that with modern x-ray and infra-red machines. To develop deep instinctive abilities, you can do that too without centipede pearls - all you need to do is to hone your skills in meditation. Those abilities that I have mentioned are actually reserved for those who cultivate on these abilities. The centipede pearls will be use as a medium to enhance their ability. If you cannot even differentiate between being awake and relax, then no pearl can help you on training for these abilities.

How do I distinguish genuine from fakes?

1. Genuine pearls when you put them on your palm and close it gently, you will feel a throbbing sensation on your palm. Some with stronger energy vibrations would enable the person to feel the energy creeping or crawling up on their arms. 

2. Genuine pearls, if being taken care after some time, the pearl would turn into even deeper red tone and hence the energy vibration would be even stronger.

3. Size. Even centipede that have grown in big size in deep jungles, would not have pearls that are as big as some small rock. IF the size is able to reach the size of a single rice grain, then it is considered very big.

No editing of colors was done on this photo.

What do I feel when I hold this pair of pearls?

1. I do feel my palm throbbing when I place it on my palms after about 2 minutes.

2. There is also a method that is taught to me by a close friend. If you hold these pearls on certain fingers and try to turn your elbow as a form of pressure, you would discover that your elbow would be very difficult to bend. I did felt this when I tested these pearls.

I have received it last week and when I took photo for this article, I find that one of the pearls seem to got bigger a bit since last week. Here are the photo. of when I received it last week and posted on Facebook for my friends viewing

Red in colour are centipede pearls, Yellow one is a VITAMIN E for size comparison

So what do I do with these pearls? Since I don't gamble, because it was part of the prime directives that was given to me when I  initiated in Taoism. I just keep it in my collection and whenever I chant mantra such as The Great Compassionate Dharani 大悲咒, I will either dedicate or blow on it. The grew in size, could very well meant that its the right thing to do.

These pearls are best kept long term in the dark, due to the nature of centipedes. I have an instinct that they like to be kept in a gourd. Therefore the pearls are each place in a glass container, tied to a red string and suspended within the gourd. They will be place on my Taoist work table.

The purpose of this write up to give the readers a chance to view and recognize GENUINE centipede pearls. These are hard to come by and the price is high as well.

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.

Image from http://www.theofantastique.com/

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.