The MSCP Principle
By Rene Qian
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The Mental Screen Conditioning Process Principle shows us how thoughts are attracted by our perception while the senses are open get firmly fixed in our mental screen creating our own reality, and how to concentrate on important aspects to help us see a broader perception of that reality in order to brake our limitations on the physical, mental, psychological and spiritual bodies. The MSCP I Principle –Routines-, provides the tools to connect us with our own energy field linked to the energy field of everybody else’s, through action by developing at the same time a self-stem and the power of will and synchronicity of event awareness. The MSCP I Principle –Routines- shows how a set of 16 routine exercise may develop the universal spark hidden within every human being to connect with his/her emotional, psychological, mental and spiritual bodies. The practitioner will start ‘extending’ an energy field after regulating the body, breathing and mind, and through the right technique will be placing his/her perception beyond time and space. The practitioner of the MSCP I Principle –Routines-, will be aware of the power of a smile and a positive comment. Will re-discover how positive emotions can resonate with a negative value on the opposite side of the measuring scale, without even never intended.
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The MSCP Principle - Rene Qian
MSCP
Rene Qian
-Mental Screen Conditioning Process-
Revealing Insights for
the Development of Vital Energy
According to Modern
Anatomy and Physiology Principles
Copyright © 2017 Rene Qian
All rights reserved
First Edition
PAGE PUBLISHING, INC.
New York, NY
First originally published by Page Publishing, Inc. 2017
Photography: Natalia Antarez Ramirez
Photographic Design and Drawings: Rene Qian
ISBN 978-1-68409-225-3 (Paperback)
ISBN 978-1-68409-226-0 (Digital)
Printed in the United States of America
The MSCP
The Mental Screen Conditioning Process -MSCP-
Recognize and relabel your ego’s polarities
while facing it, according
to thorough perception analysis.
Rene Qian MSCP
This book is dedicated to everyone I have been in touch with in life. I want to thank them kindly for accepting being my teachers, for being aware or unaware about their teachings, and for showing me the gift of polarity recognition.
The Mental Screen Conditioning Process -MSCP- Routine
To be or not to be . . . yin or yang?
That is the question!
Through the practice of the Mental Screen Conditioning Process -MSCP- routine, the energy workout that tunes the spirit with the body through a disciplined mind based on the anatomical and physiological knowledge of the human organism.
Grasping the understanding of a hidden and sacred insight while having a close encounter about the existence of good, or having reached an inner perception of what evil could be, it’s having crossed the borderline of the nonmentionable. When communicating this knowledge to others, while trying to explain it to them that good or evil exists, is to go into a universe of dualities, of the illusory and to become verbal, for all of these words have a different semantic charge for everyone of us, which are the foundation to our personal experiences. The explanation that we provide to the listener may be real to us but, likewise, may be a fantasy for their ears.
-Rene Qian MSCP
To our readers,
The duality between yin and yang is the balance of the manifest. The existence of an object, an idea, or an action is the expression of the relative and the creative principle of the nonexistence, of the nonmanifested. Neither of these principles, as yin and yang, is more than the other because all the categories have been manifested in order to create the reality that identifies us as human beings through our sense of perception.
Disclaimer/Warning
This intellectual work was created to provide information and techniques that have been practiced in the East for many years and widely in the West for nearly sixty years. Such information and practices apply a set of systems within the human body; nevertheless, no claims have been filed regarding its effectiveness.
The information offered in this book is based on his experience and knowledge and is to be used by the practitioner’s discretion and liability.
All mental, physical, psychological, and spiritual conditions in persons are different, and their growth through age has different levels and conditions. A measurement on the unification of these four bodies in people’s life cannot be possible, for there is no single routine than can be applied in general to everyone. It is up to every reader’s responsibility to adopt and apply the information shared in this publication.
The author and publisher of this publication are not responsible in any way for any harm that may occur through following the instructions in this book.
Prologue
For more than five thousand years, chi-kung and other energy practices had been the most kept secret in the world. Such knowledge was practiced silently in hidden spaces and behind walls, for its practice was forbidden in Buddhist monasteries’ open areas, in inaccessible mansions just allowed for the wealthy and the powerful, as well as inside the emperor’s palaces protected by the royal guards—even at Taoists’ gatherings, all chi-kung practices were restricted.
From this perspective, chi-kung became the most secret, sacred, and esoteric cult practiced in China.
This knowledge was transmitted orally from teacher to student. Lineage-selected students lasted for thousands of years. Monks and royalty descendants, artists and poets, warriors and martial arts practitioners, as well as wise men, dedicated their lives to the cult for the Dao of life.
Nowadays, things have changed, as well as the access to esoteric teachings from other cultures in the world also have. Since the ’50s in North America, chi kung information and other energy cultivation schools started to spread widely and abundantly among thousands of multicultural communities, revealing its secrets on this contemporary era of informatics by reaching ears and eyes of millions of people around the world.
This ancient knowledge known as chi kung is a set of exercises based on the breathing cycle delivering an energy flow through all the body.
Everyone can practice chi kung. Such practice keeps a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual balance in every devoted observer. Within this balanced energy, the practitioner may keep peace of mind and, hence, inner happiness.
A continuous chi kung practice will bring fame and fortune but not the kind everyone is dreaming of. Fame will come to you, indeed, especially for those that honor their families, admire friends, and respect new acquaintances. People will notice a very special healthy look on your overall body. They will notice a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual radiance flowing out of your persona. Fortune will knock to your door within days, hours, minutes, and seconds because you will be adding extra days to your life.
You will be holding fortune in your hands by knowing the secret to longevity, and this secret will be yours when you decide to include a considerable amount of devotion through the practice of two blocks, the mental screen conditioning process I –MSCP I- routine, and the mental screen conditioning process II -MSCP II- techniques. On the first block, a set of exercises based on the breathing, posture, and mind regulation will be revealed so the student may find emotional, physical, and mental balance. A set of sixteen exercises will be explained in detail so the practitioner may grasp the essence of vital energy, or chi, step-by-step on a regular and daily basis.
On the second block, the mental screen conditioning process II -MSCP II- techniques, is a set of exercises which will help the practitioner develop inner wisdom through aleatory self-insights sprouted by guided mental leads with the purpose to gain extra sensorial awareness, ego identification, dissemination of personal traumatic events, objectivity of events and an awareness of the main elements to experience life. Such techniques of power are conducted first by an experienced sage, to latter allow the student walk the magician’s path by him or herself.
This book covers the first block or mental screen conditioning process I –MSCP I- routine, of which foundation is the practice and knowledge of chi kung principles.
Chi kung practice unifies the rich and poor, the ruling and the ruled, and the price to be paid for such result to have effect is to share a bit of personal time and a regular practice. Don’t be surprised to find in your local libraries and bookstores a considerable amount of information about this ancient knowledge. Worldwide, there are numerous schools that offer this knowledge to seekers and to those who need it as well.
I’ve noticed that despite this knowledge has been offered to millions of people, it still retains its sacred and secretive essence. Sacred, because the constant practice will reveal a hidden treasure, which every student must discover within to get to know more about his/her physical and spiritual bodies and environment. Secret, because regardless if it is offered without conditions when requested, people that practice this knowledge will fail to explain the profound outcome of the experiences gained during and after the process of implementation of these simple and fun-to-do exercises. However, every experience is unique to every mental screen conditioning process 1 –MSCP I- routine practitioner, by revealing the necessary elements required for their personal development as a means to find and obtain a whole balance. The balance will lead the way to get you to understand the whys and hows of your existence on this planet, the purpose of society, family bonds, and a destiny, as a person and as a part of this endless universe.
The answers to these questions have a personal nature to everyone concerned about the outcome of its actions and accomplishments, and this book will not provide you with all the answers you are looking for on a short-term basis, but it is sure that this book will be a tool to be kept all the way to your journey in search of a partial truth. The mental screen conditioning process 1 –MSCP I- will help you find all the answers you are looking for because it provides the practitioner with a set of scenarios conformed by the physical and mental. All human beings coexist, creating a reality based on their beliefs and commitments in life and to other human beings. It’s about discerning the complexity of the dualities in order to understand and overcome the conflicts created by the human mind, especially by the emotional mind, allowing you to push the right buttons and the steps to create a whirlwind of ideas and polarized concepts released by the emotional mind. The knowledge you get from this journey will help you find those answers daily threading through a thorough practice.
On the first part of this volume is included theory and technical aspects on the mental screen conditioning process I -MCP I- routine.
On the second part lies on the thorough practice of a series of sixteen exercises where a series of drawings and step-by-step instructions are provided for a better understanding of this knowledge.
Part I and part II are structured with a series of exercises that act as accessories to help get a better understanding on the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies’ manifestation. Both sections observe aspects about the correct way on breathing, the correct body posture, and a fierce desire to develop an own sense of patience and self-discipline. In this volume, the reader will find the information needed to find his/her own answers on the search of human existence while delving into the mental screen conditioning process 1 –MSCP I- routine.
The content of this book meets the basic requirements so that the student may achieve an understanding of his physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies, providing the necessary information for the practitioner to move safe and slow toward the fulfillment of his/her own inner search.
The path to fulfill self-discovery requires much more information than the one included on this volume but with the aid from the mental screen conditioning process II –MSCP II- techniques, which is based on the knowledge and effectiveness of transcendental meditation, the student will go into specific techniques, provided by an experienced instructor, so the practitioner may explore the outcome of phenomenology and semiotics perceived through sensory data (with its illusion, perspective variable, and hallucination), and capta (conscious experience.) within his/her cognitive world.
Hope you enjoy this volume that contains the principles of vital energy development in a simple and easy way to learn an ancient knowledge kept secret for centuries.
Rene Qian
Phoenix, Arizona
2016
PART ONE
General Introduction
Prelude
This first work entitled the mental screen conditioning process 1 –MSCP I- routine is the foundation to further energy application, its expanding uses, and a better understanding on the work of chi, or vital energy.
This first work will set the practitioner in a realm conformed to as many variables as many self-improvement and healing techniques may be found in the history of humanity.
During the years of practice that I have devoted to the collection of energy applications, I noticed from the first sessions of practice of the mental screen conditioning process 1 –MSCP I- routine a sense of heat and a tingling sensation that ran through my body especially in the upper and lower extremities to later grow as a sense of greatness expansion, as if my whole body had resembled an inflating metallic balloon, like the sensation felt while staring a huge rock in front of you and way high above your body. During my practice, I felt that the collection of energy could only come from an inexhaustible source of the universe. The energy sensation experienced while the practitioner is doing the mental screen conditioning process I –MSCP I- routine is the accumulation of the postnatal spirit—principle known from the Chinese philosophy—which is accumulated through daily practice, consumption of good food, the inhalation of pure air, and the observance of a healthy lifestyle. This initial energy is like the flame that lit the burner to get the light to expand radiating at the same time, more energy. The burner is connected to this great source of energy that is the universe indefinitely and constantly nurturing all living beings. This energy is the one which healers make use of. I do not recommend making use of your own energy, that first
flame that is experienced after practicing a chi kung routine, and to be transmitted to the patient, since this must be retained, for it is the primordial energy of all living beings. This flame is the first pointer to develop awareness of an inexhaustible power. To convey a flow of energy, this must be collected from the universe as the main source; here is where the practitioner becomes the vehicle of this limitless force. The practitioner makes use of this flow to remove obstacles to energy, at the same time keeping his/her own personal balance without making use of that postnatal flame, since it would be detrimental to their own physical well-being by weakening their energy shield. The universe is an inexhaustible source from which we must use to channel it to other living beings and as a source of self-healing.
In 1973, in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, I met Maru, an instructor working for the IC Center, sponsored by the great master/magician Andrew D. P. Through the ICC, the necessary contacts were made with the Taoist Sanctuary of San Francisco, California, with the intention to invite Taoist instructors to teach in Guadalajara. Steve G. was the first instructor of shen chi kung, from whom I received the first knowledge of this awe and subtle system for the work of vital energy. By that time, Steve taught to more than twenty students the routine of the shen chi kung exercises. Initially, it was announced that Steve would be in charge of the group, which for a week he taught the full routine, but by domestic situations with ICC, he only spent with us a couple of days. Then the Taoist Sanctuary in San Francisco, California, sent us another instructor. His name was Mike M. He taught us the whole chi kung shen routine consisting of sixteen standing exercises: the sitting format shen chi kung routine, the walking meditation with the use of rice paper for the development of the energy balance, and the seedless form of the Taoist meditation.
Mike stayed in the city as scheduled for a week, but because of the pleasant climate of the city and the warmth of its inhabitants, Mike decided to extend his stay for more than one month in the Perla Tapatia
(Tapatian Pearl), which is how the city of Guadalajara is also known in Mexico.
On the first week of instruction, I strived to learn as much as possible. The way of the Dao seemed to me to be very interesting, and every day when I attended a class was a day of rejoicing that filled a void within me. This thought could be compared to the feeling of finding something that has been lost for a long time, and after finding it, it brings to the mind a certain memory that puts you back to the right moment in which you had that special something for the very first time.
I clearly remember once, during a class, Mike asked me to walk to another area where he was going to review some of the shen chi kung exercises with me. There, he asked me to do some exercises while he was watching my movements as I was doing the routine very carefully. After reviewing the exercises I knew, Mike taught me a couple of exercises more, which principle is to mirror each other’s arm movements. I asked him the basic questions about the movements of such exercises, to which he answered properly and asked me to do the exercises he just taught me, including the ones I had already known. I was alone in that wing of the studio, the space ICC had rented for the course on shen chi kung.
I started doing the exercises on dim lights coming from the reflection of a set of candles prepared for such practice. The two rooms were lit only by the glow of the candles, scatterred about on the floor in the contiguous area where I was standing. All those candles had been lighted on by Maru, my ICC instructor. Embedded in such environment, I concentrated all my attention in doing the exercises but could give a quick glance through the near-open door, which was close to the teaching area where Mike and Maru were among ten students forming a circle. Mike was inside the circle while watching the group of students perform their exercises, correcting their movements and fixing their body postures among enthusiastic exclamations and inquisitive looks to each other’s movements.
I found myself isolated from the rest of the group close to twenty minutes, practicing the routine I had learned by heart. After sensing a feeling of calmness, I went back to the next area of the wide classroom to meet with the rest of the group. I walked across the area with that feeling of peace of mind that only the oxygen produces after the regulation of body, breathing, and mind. My walking pace felt unusually slow while feeling almost intangible as Mike was guiding other students, and while passing near to him, I nodded my head toward him as an affirmative gesture to let him know that I had already completed the exercise routine. Mike stared at me quite inquisitive, while saying at the same time, You are glowing.
A gesture of affirmation came out of me almost automatically, without really understanding what he just said to me.
I felt my head was on cloud nine, and at that moment, I just wanted to find a place to rest the sublime peace of mind and deep sense of tranquility. I got stuck thinking of what Mike just had told me, and when I lowered my gaze at my arms, I saw, indeed, coming out from my hands and the back of my forearms, a faint glow with luminous quality, sort of a nimbus —this under a look of satisfaction of the great Maru, who at that precise moment was looking at me, looking at myself. This glow lasted only at the eve of my gaze because mesmerized to what I was looking at, I wanted to keep seeing that glow fire from my arms once more, but the phosphorescent glow was no longer there, where moments before I had perceived it. After that, I could only see the silhouette of my forearms dimly reflecting the luminosity of the silent and flickering flames of the candles on the floor of the classroom.
For a week, the small group of students met at the same place. While reviewing the exercises, we were taking notes about the information provided by our instructor, Mike. Maru was in charge of the interpretation process to what Mike had to tell us in English. There were times where Mike needed to share with us very advanced information to what I noticed a few times that Maru kept discreetly for herself, some information provided by Mike, for I perceived that we, as students, would inaccurately anticipate to a clean experience coming from the chi kung routines.
I was born and grew up in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, and had the privilege since childhood to learn English as a second language, for that when Mike asked Maru to interpret the lecture to the group, I had already understood the information before Maru had do so.
It came to an end, the week-required learning, closing the last day of class with a farewell lecture to cover outstanding doubts or questions on the subject. After providing explanation to doubts and questions about the energy flow, Mike closed the class with a circle of energy. But before closing the circle of power as he did the first day he gave his first lecture, Mike got on his feet, asking the group to continue with the energy circle and to fill out the space he was leaving empty for he had to pick up something he needed for this purpose. The two students who were near Mike approached each other, closing the gap left by him. Eighteen students more had to move in order to close the void left by their neighbors, leaving no spaces between one another. Now the circle was really closed.
Take care of carrying out the transmission of the energy flow,
asked me Mike in plain English. I then proceeded to carry out the compact circle energy transmission. I lifted my arms, one on the right at the height of the waist at an angle of ninety degrees, with the palm of my right hand facing down and directing the flow of energy on my college’s left hand facing up who was sitting to my right. My left hand was at waist level and at an angle of forty-five degrees, three inches away under the right hand of my neighbor at my left. I held my left hand static, facing up and connecting the energy with him and eighteen participants more. I started to move the energy around the circle formed by the mental screen conditioning process 1- MSCP I- routine practitioners by pushing and pulling my right hand. The energy started to flow in circles going down when the energy was pushed and going upward when pulled. The movements of my right hand needed to be subtle while at the same time, I was pushing my diaphragm down when exhaling and inhaling to raise my hand back. I was focused on my movements while making use of the inverse diaphragmatic breathing.
Holding a 35-mm. disposable camera in his hand, Mike stepped himself at my right side and in front of me. He squeezed a couple of times the instamatic
Kodak camera shutter. Mike kept shooting the camera at different angles, as if he was looking for something unknown to all of us. After a few clicks
more at the photo session, I tried to keep focused on the transmission of energy over the left hand of my colleague at my right. I felt the flow of energy as a type of a confrontation between polarities, similar to the rejection effect between the two conflicting tips of a magnet. The strength of the energy flow among those present felt very strong, a current in series that we all could feel. The chain of power came to an end after a few moments.
We said good-bye to one another, desiring to repeat such amazing experience on a future chi kung course. Mike went back to San Francisco but returned to Guadalajara a few days later. He had brought with him a huge singing bowl of about four feet high by two feet in diameter. Be careful when handling the bowl, since I’ve brought it from the San Francisco, California, Taoist Sanctuary,
Mike addressed this to the few students who had visited him that day. Taking a wooden striker of about twelve by one inches, lined with violet velvet fabric, Mike slid the wooden striker over the rim of the singing bowl, producing a deep and continuous sound. Sliding it over the edge of this big upside-down bell, he created a hypnotic sound, inviting to plunge into a deep state of meditation, connecting the listener with a flow of energy held in the atmosphere.
The singing bowl was made from the alloy of seven metals, which—while sliding its edge with a wooden striker and applying varying amounts of constant pressure and motion—produces a peculiar sound, deep and melodious alike, like a draft of air passing through a crack between twigs or a crevice in a hard object. We didn’t have much time to enjoy this sacred object, for on the third day, Mike and Maru sent the singing bowl back to the Taoist Sanctuary in San Francisco. No one for certain knew what was the reason for such a sudden decision.
Mike took the initiative to open a chi kung learning center in Guadalajara. but few registered to the courses, and each day, the attendance was less. Both opted to return to the United States, and a couple of weeks later, Maru and Mike returned to Guadalajara.
I visited them every day for a whole month. My interest to learn was so huge that I wanted to learn as much as I could. Mike understood my interest in learning about the energy flow commands that he taught me the Nei kung sitting and standing routines, the Nine Flowers routine, and the microcosmic and macrocosmic sitting and standing postures.
Once more, Mike and Maru attempted to open a school of martial arts, which included the principle of yin-yang, the theory of the five elements, Chi-kung, Taoist meditation, Kung fu, and Tai chi chuan. Some students registered to the school but not enough to financially sustain Mike and Maru’s efforts. This time, after a month, the school closed its doors once again, so Mike and Maru had to return to the United States, this time for a much longer period.
The student-teacher relationship between Mike and me was barely starting when it was interrupted by awkward circumstances, taking a twist that only the universal energy flow was holding for the future. The time went by, but the nostalgia of those great moments experienced by all the students who had taken classes with Mike and Maru were still alive in our hearts. The feeling of well-being and peace we all felt once had changed, taking a different tone of emotional color. It was up to me now, to look for this permanent feeling of peace and joy inside my heart, mind, and soul through the harvest of energy work and meditation.
For months, I heard nothing about my teachers, when one day, my friend Roberto V. visited me at home and gave me the great news long time awaited. Mike and Maru would come to Guadalajara so Maru, a native of Guadalajara, could visit her mother residing at Guadalajara.
When I was informed that Maru and Mike would come, I felt an enormous joy just to think about I was going to be able to see them and talk about our recent experiences.
Came the expected day in which Roberto and I would visit them. We arrived at Maru’s mother’s house. Roberto knocked at the door, to which Maru attended. She invited us in asking Roberto and myself to wait in the living room. Moments passed while we waited for our hosts to show up. Mike appeared first, greeting us. After the formal salutations, it wasn’t long that Maru appeared.
Roberto, after exchanging a few words with Mike and Maru, said that he had to leave, that he should return to comply with his commitments at his work place. I felt very fortunate to be able to stay alone with my friends and hear what they had to say along our conversation. I didn’t feel a sense of satisfaction that Roberto had left me alone with such great masters, but the environment felt differently after he had departed.
By that time I was twenty-one years old, my personality was somewhat reserved but very respectful. I was not a person who could externalize my thoughts easily, but I respected the ideas of others just as their physical appearance—conservative, exotic, or bizarre. During that time, I could perceive most of the persons I had met as individuals with a unique and admirable personality.
Maru, Mike, and I talked about trivial things, like three friends who had stopped seeing each other for a long, very long time. Mike asked me about how I was doing with my Chi kung exercises. How were things going with me?
Above and beyond feeling happy to see them, I felt a little tense and spent most of the time while listening to Mike talking, quiet and taciturn, when they talked to one another or when one of them talked to me. I felt awkward most of the time and answered to their questions or comments with a dull, monosyllabic yes or no. Turmoil of silence was boiling in my mind, partly because I didn’t know what to say about their comments, and secondly because although I grew up speaking English, my vocabulary was limited and what I was hearing at that moment sounded to me like broken English.
Although I had a private English language instructor who taught me a lot for three months, five days a week, when I was twelve years old, I learned to speak English in a passive way. I spent my teenage hood in Chihuahua and Guadalajara, Mexico, with limited exposure to practice the language with English-speaking people. And keep in consideration, who at that age cares to build up a vocabulary in a second language, mostly if you don’t live in a country where you can practice that language? This was definitely not my case. My expectations were not clear, like any other twenty-one-year-old, and now in front of my friend and mentor, Mike, I could not communicate my ideas as easily as I would have liked. I felt that a great opportunity was fading away in front of me, dripping away through my fingers. I felt like I was trying to keep an object in focus monitored through a telephoto camera lens while moving deranged, along different points within its depth of field range—an opportunity in my life, but the object moving erratically like if it had a life of its own and, following no commands from me, its host, looking for its own origin in the universe without any difficulties and barriers to do so.
I never thought—while I longed for this encounter, sharing seats with these two amazing people—that I would manage the way I was doing, and I couldn’t avoid it. There I was, sitting in front of these incredible storytellers, like a rock.
Mike, who perhaps felt the apprehension I was suffering from at the time, stood up and pulled out a Cat Stevens’s long-playing record from its cover. He left to place the pickup cartridge over the record, producing a beautiful and calming music. Morning Has Risen
played the first chords while Maru, in a low voice, said something to Mike, after which Mike got up to grab a photo from of a bundle of documents.
This is powerful, Rene,
Mike said, handing me the photo. There was I on the picture, sitting in front of a group of twenty people,