I was imitating the figures on the wall in Luxor. They were strikingly like postures from Chinese Qigong. I saw a statue in the Cairo Museum that showed points on the Gallbladder meridian channel. An Egyptian friend said that there were acupuncture needles there. Perhaps there were “cultural exchanges” between China and Egypt perhaps via the Silk Road?
There were these 7 “false”doors inside one of the smaller temples inside Karnak. I heard that they represented the 7 chakras. The guide who took us around for free, a mysterious man, showed us a technique where his left hand was on the chest of one of our companions and the right hand on the sacrum. It appeared like a technique of opening the Microcosmic Orbit. The subject of this demonstration said that she felt the energy rising on her spine.
The subterranean passage in the Temple at Dendera in Upper Egypt had these eggplant-shaped images that were supposed to represent ancient batteries, There were also images of planes and helicopter carved on the wall but I cannot find the photos. The beauty of the sunset on the Nile was one view I have retained all these years. It brought me a sense of serenity and a connection to an ancient past life that I vaguely remembered.
I taught Chi Nei Tsang internal organs massage in Cairo and Heliopolis and treated patients with acupuncture and massage. I was invited to dinner with 20 healers, all women. Three women told me that I was either a priest or a scribe in ancient Egypt.
I was in Istanbul in 2004 or 2005 on the invitation of my friend and teacher David Verdesi. I flew in from Cyprus, I believe. I met some of his students: Gonca Denizmen, a young Turkish model, and Ana Vladimirova, a Russian qigong teacher whom I had known for sometime and whom I met in Chiangmai, Thailand. I taught both of them movements from Shaolin forms. Anna I also saw in Indonesia when I went to visit the Magus and in Rome when I was studying with David. Gonca I met again in Huangshan, Anhui, China when I David and I went to visit the hermits. There is a lot of more I could mention but I will do it when I have more time and space to write.
Sertab Erener is a famous singer not only in Turkey burt also in much of the Muslim world. When I met her, she was one of the students of David Verdesi. I had the opportunity to work on her during a few classes. If I ask about her at a Turkish restaurant I usual get information from the waiting staff. She was an excellent and thoughtful host when I was there in 2005. She gave me 4 of her CDs. I still play them because she has a phenomenal voice.
Gonca and Anna and I met every morning by the Bosporus and practiced. I studied Xing Shen Zhuang Fa with them later, Ana in Rome and Gonca in Huangshan. Ana has since then moved back to Moscow while Gonca migrated to Vancouver.
