Extract from this months Universal Tao newsletter:

> From Master Mantak Chia

> “The Taoist Canons describe how a group of Aryans were shipwrecked on the
> South China shore thousands of years ago. They did not die, or have
> children, and became known as the Shining Ones. They transmitted their
> secret magical and healing practices to the shamans When Buddhism came to
> China, shamans were persecuted, like witches in the West, so they became
> Taoists, rivals to the Buddhists, and continued their practices in secret,
> using only internal energy, internal alchemy, without the use of
> accessories to identify themselves. The saying goes you cannot tell a sage
> by his clothes. They were also known as magicians, wizards, and sorcerers.
> Yes, Taoism is magic.”

Why would you say that I am insane? I wouldn’t say that I’ve lost my mind simply because I’ve heard the voices and seen the godless things moving in the woods. If anything, I think more clearly now than ever before. - Ash

Uh, okay.

(Backing away slowly.)

Thanks for sharing that.

(Putting more distance between me and what’s going on here.)

Hope it all works out with you. Seriously.

(Turning–and then running like the wind FOR MY LIFE!!)

K. Mark Hoover