The Occult Nature Of Martial ArtsThe Occult Nature Of Martial Arts

In my nearly thirty-year experience in the martial arts, I have seen some interesting
things. Most of them are ordinary, some spectacular. These include mere human feats
of incredible jump spin-kicks, power breaking and manipulation of opponents.
Sometimes these demonstrations have crossed into states of metaphysical events.
Martial arts often suggest a level of skill beyond the mere physical, and hint at an
intangible or esoteric knowledge. This skill is recognized not only as a fighting skill,
but also a healing skill.
From the earliest times, Warriors and Occult practitioners, or Shamen have been
closely linked. Going to battle was a spiritual event, involving preparation and in
some cases, inducing a trance state. The Vikings were known to have taken mind-
altering mushrooms before going into battle, hence the term Berserker (Berserk).
They went nuts and killed things. That warrior cult was also steeped in pagan gods,
divination and superstition. They were a warrior culture, yet given the opportunity,
they melded with the populations they had just kicked the crap out of and helped build
much of Europe.
Other aboriginal cultures across the world have their warrior cultures closely linked to
shamanic experiences also. Anyone who has read the Carlos Castenada books with
Don Juan the sorcerer have a look into native American Indian culture and warrior
spirit. Part of coming of age in warrior cultures has often been linked to taking
psychedelic drugs or experiencing extreme hardships under the guidance of elders.
With Japanese martial artists such as Aikido founder Ueshiba, there were cults such as
the Shinto O-Moto Kyo, that were based in natural science of every day living, and
the older and revered Chinese occult systems. Chinese Tao is Japanese Do, and
the esoteric knowledge of each has the same root. Nearly all cultures revered the
sword as a spiritual tool, some bearing generations of blood.
Perhaps no esoteric system is better known than the Chinese five-element theory that
governs acupuncture and pressure points. An unknown number of people partake in
the healing arts provided by these techniques, yet they are hardly recognized by
modern medicine today. Contemporary medicine looks upon Meridian theory as
placebo therapy, yet in a martial as well as a healing application, the results are
striking (pun intended).
The five-element theory is akin to the childs game of rock-scissors-paper, where
there is a healing aspect as well as a destructive nature. Wood feeds fire, fire creates
earth, earth produces metal, metal leads to water (somewhat obscure, possibly water
witching). The destructive cycle is just the opposite; metal cuts wood, wood
penetrates earth, earth dams water, water cools fire, fire shapes metal. While each
element relates to a meridian, combinations of strikes in the destructive cycle on
meridians can cause knockout and damage. Experts more knowledgeable than me
may expand on this.
The point is, there is a lot more to the skills involved in both healing and killing than
most martial schools offer. Pressure points, sacred sounds used in ki-ais and much
more.
From an internet search, there are scores of articles by Christian authors that indicate
their fear of these ideas. Too bad for them. They may be missing out on a whole
bunch of stuff that was known to the old Christian Gnostics that are abhorrent to
modern evangelicals today. For instance, the Knights Templar was a Christian warrior
society that found enlightenment in the middle-east, and incorporated it into their
Christian rituals. The Templers were a Christian Knight organization that was created
to guard passage to the holy lands from Europe. They built their fortress on the
Temple mount In Jerusalem, and are said to have found the holiest ancient Gnostic
(self enlightened) Christian relics. The Templars, according to author Jim Marrs
(Rule By Secrecy-Harper-Collins), cut deals with and gained esoteric knowledge
from The Assassins, the Hashish cult-for-hire in middle age Islam. Speculation is
there was much information exchanged. Upon their return to Europe, the Templars
used sacred geometry to build the Gothic Cathedrals, celestial navigation, and the first
banking system. All this was built on Arab culture, and it revolutionized Europe. They
were a Christian martial society, and on Friday the 13th 1307, many of the Templars
were rounded up by the church, tortured and disbanded, partly for their esoteric and
non-conventional knowledge. The contemporary Catholic Church may be the worlds
largest practitioner of ceremonial magic, with the ritual cannibalism of the wafer and
wine, or the methods of choosing a Pope.
Then there is the dark side. The Japanese Yakuza and Tong Chinese Mafia have long
had blood rites. Secret societies such as Ninja clans developed many black-art
techniques, the same techniques that are seen today in drug-induced interrogation,
water-bording etc.
In the past, I have written about other cult-like schools. In Portland Oregon, there was
a school called Poekulean or A rose with thorns. This was primarily a womans
self-defense school, and they had candlelight rituals with knives involved. Now, this
was an Indonesian-based school, and such is the nature of those arts, but it freaked a
lot of women in Portland out, to the point where a critical article in a weekly paper
was written.
I have also witnessed some No touch knockouts. I am telling you, these are very
controversial, and dont always work, but when they do, they do. There is an element
of the Master-student relationship that is conducive to achieving the no touch
knockout. I believe it involves hypnosis similar to that experimented with by Anton
Mesmer in early European culture. I have also seen these attempts at knockouts go
very bad. Hardened athletes and skeptics are more resistant, suggesting an element of
Hypnosis is involved.
There is however, something that does happen. George Dillmans Ryukyu Kempo
group hooked students up to medical recording equipment and performed no touch
knockouts on them. The results were startling and cautionary. Over cold drinks after a
seminar I discussed this with experts Jack Hogan and Dan McCusky, both who had
witnessed Dillmans experiment. In their opinion, people went out very heavily, and
were difficult to recover. They felt there was a tremendous amount of psychic energy
involved. This practice can come at the physical expense of the practitioner. One of
the men who was knocking people out urinated blood afterward, indicating that it had
affected the prenatal Chi residing in his kidneys. Hogan and McCusky hinted that this
art was possibly taken further, and commented that There are some things that
people just shouldnt be doing.
Most of us practice martial arts for health, self-defense and self-improvement. Just
how far down the path we go, and which turns we choose are up to the individual.
Through modern methods such as biofeedback and brain imaging, we are now able to
see how shamanic practices of the ancients actually work. How they are used is a
different story