I am frequently asked about the metaphysical aspects of being a Qigong
metaphysical realities of energy based healing.  With regards to Medical
Qigong, Dr. Jerry Alan Johnson said it better than anyone I have heard on
the topic.  The following quotation is from Jerry's book, Chinese Medical I
am frequently asked about most complete English text on the subject of
energy healing in the world healer.  I personally believe too today.  It is
rapidly becoming the bible of Medical Qigong healers everywhere.  

are other dimensions of reality that are very tangible, and access to them is
only limited by fear and ignorance.  Since theories on the nature of the
mind and spirit cannot be easily verified or disproved by intellectual
analysis or scientific experiment, sometimes certain kinds of knowledge are
disbelieved, ridiculed, and dismissed.  The advanced energy theories that
are presented in this textbook are based upon the 5000 years of cultivation
and experience of Chinese medical healing.  The energetic form of Chi is
The dictionary describes "metaphysical" as "the study of psychic neither
good nor evil, it is simply another aspect of matter.  The ancient Chinese
Qigong masters refined the ability to analyze and diagnose these different
forms of energy into an effective healing modality.

The existence of energy and its multidimensional patterns is embraced and
accepted by many other cultures and societies, with the exception of
Western conventional thinking, which is unfamiliar with this unorthodox
approach to healing.

These energetic realms, which form the reality of the Medical Qigong
doctor's clinical healings, are actually normal perceptional skills that the
doctors have developed and trained within themselves.  These doctors
have simply rediscovered and trained their sensitivity to energies that they
were open to during childhood.  These energies encompass more than just
the physical world.  These perceptive skills and abilities of Shen are
actually our natural, energetic "Birthright," and have been with us since
birth.  Shen Gong skills, and all psychic powers, lie within the Eternal Soul
of an individual, although in most people these skills are undeveloped and
largely unused.  Often we fear the most of things we understand the least.  
It has also been my observation that individuals are taught to ignore these
skills because of one or more of the following reasons:

1.  They have become frightened of them, because as children they were
told that these abilities do not exist;

2.  They were told that such abilities were evil, or 'of the devil;'

3.  Unable to understand them, they do not know how to integrate them into
their personal lives;

4.  They may fear the emotional and spiritual responsibility of knowing the
truth about themselves and others; or

5.  The known is familiar and therefore more comfortable than the unknown
and new.

Sometimes, even facing our own human potential alarms us so greatly (fear
bordering on terror) that we are willing to deny empirical evidence that
these paranormal skills and abilities are real.

We live, therefore, with a paradox.  These paranormal abilities seem to be
part of our nature, yet they can disturb us so greatly that we often violently
reject them.  Medical Qigong doctors are healers who have learned to
accept these paranormal abilities and direct their energy, spirit, and
psychic skills towards the focus of alleviating pain and suffering.  They are
"wounded healers" who have learned to face their fears, and have the
courage to walk through and overcome them.
Qigong and Metaphysics