by Urgeist » Sat Apr 24, 2010 7:35 pm
I took a fairly in depth course on Qigong for three months at my martial arts school. I do not know the name of the Qigong style we learned there, but it involved gathing the bodies qi and leading it from the dantien, through the genitals / anus, up the spine, into the brain and back into the Dantien. That was the climax of the form. This was a while back and I havent been practicing this Qigong set due to time constraints. However, I remember my teacher saying that if one does this for a year one will have a sort of "mystical" experience - he described it as feeling like one is surrounding full of white light and everything is very peaceful. I do not remember my teacher's name either but he was very knowledgeable in martial arts. What do forum users make of such claims? Is qigong a form of mysticism?