The Magus of Java Teachings Revealed

Knowing how many people out there are searching for information about John Chang, the “Magus of Java”, and especially teachings that would reveal how John Chang became the way he is and how they might go about doing the same, I thought I would give my two cents on the subject. Many reviewers of the book “The Magus of Java” complained about how the book had no teachings. One even stated that “this book really gets your curiosity going as one amazing feat after the other is trotted out for the reader . . . But like an expensive restaurant bringing you a beautiful but tiny morsel on a huge plate, one is left desperately hungry. Kosta Danaos never tells you how to do any of this stuff.”

Are there really no teachings of practical value in the book “The Magus of Java”? Actually, I disagree with the reviewers. In my option, there are many practical teachings in the book, and they are of great value. In fact, levels 1, 2, 3 and 4 are completely spelled out for all to see! So why has no one noticed them yet?

The reason no one has noticed them is because they are unaware of a fundamental law by which the invisible energy of chi operates. What is this law? Well, it is that chi energy is controlled by our will. Just like you can directly move your arms, or eyes, or toes, simply by willing it to happen, you can also directly control the movement of chi by your will. I know this because of the thousands of hours I’ve spent moving chi through my body for purposes of emotional healing. I did it all entirely by use of my will.

Knowing this has a great impact on how we review the information in the book. While there are no moving exercises described in the book, the fact is that because of this law you do not need moving exercises. You can control the chi directly! Understanding this, gleaning the necessary data from the book is relatively simple. Kosta reveals to us exactly how level 1, 2, 3, and 4 are accomplished because he tells us exactly what is necessary to do with our chi, and because we can control chi with our will, this is all the information we need!

So what’s the meat? Here it is:

Level 1: The dantien is filled with yang chi. (Supporting pages in the book: 39, 82)

Level 2: The yang chi in the dantien is compressed into a hard ball in the belly. (82, 104-105)

Level 3: The hard ball in the belly becomes “mobile”, and is moved in an X pattern first, after which it can be moved all around. (105-106)

Level 4: The yang (presumably, the ball that is now mobile) is sent down to the hui-yin point (located midway between the anus and the genitals) where it gathers yin chi. After some time, the yin and yang concentrations (or balls) of energy rise in the body, and then are forced together into the dantien where they become combined, creating the electrical type energy. (39, 43, 82, 97-98, 108-109)

Now how do these levels look when we apply our understanding of will? They look like the following:

Level 1: In the same way that you move your arm or any other part of your body, will the yang chi that exists all around you (and comes from the light that surrounds us) directly into your dantien. Keep doing this until your dantien is full (which you will intuitively feel).

Level 2: In the same way that you move your arm or any other part of your body, will the energy in your filled-up dantien to compress tighter and tighter. Do this until a hard ball of energy is formed in your dantien that you can feel.

Level 3: In the same way that you move your arm or any other part of your body, will the hard ball in your dantien to start to move in the X pattern. Keep working at it until the ball can be moved anywhere.

Level 4: In the same way that you move your arm or any other part of your body, will the ball to move down to your hui-yin point and keep it there until the yin and yang energies naturally rise (which will probably take some time before happening). Then, when they have risen, use your will to fuse the two energies together into your dantien.

So there you have it! Exactly how to accomplish levels 1, 2, 3 and 4! Of course each of these steps, as laid out in the book, take quite a bit of time and persistence – something like a year or more on each. And in addition, I would add that the way I describe how to accomplish these steps might be a little different than the way John Chang actually teaches them, because the way I describe them affects the chi directly, rather than indirectly through exercises. Nevertheless, I am convinced that if the steps described in the book have any truth behind them, then using your will in the way outlined is one way to accomplish them. I am so convinced that I would be still attempting these steps today if I wasn’t working on something I believe to be even more powerful.

Finally, to all those who think that these steps should only be accomplished under the supervision of a qualified master, I will simply say that, according to “The Magus of Java”, John Chang’s master died before John Chang finished level 3, and he completed level 4 (presumably the most dangerous level of them all) with the use of a book his master gave him, and nothing else. (41-43) If John Chang can do it, then why can’t we!

How to Feel Better: Eight Techniques That Work

In my life I have had many times where I have felt terrible. In the past I have been diagnosed, at various different times, with schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder, and depression, all of which are characterized by extreme low moods and other states which, I can attest to you from personal experience, all feel bad.

About six years ago, around the start of my serious problems, I began searching for ways to help me feel better. Over the years, bit by bit, I found ways that can do just that – techniques that have allowed me to change from a bad emotional state to a good one.

The techniques I am about to share with you all work – I know that from spending thousands of hours using them. You could say that they are “hid away from the world” because most of the world doesn’t know about them. But make no mistake, they are very powerful – like a secret weapon that only few possess. By consistently using these techniques they give you the power to naturally eliminate your emotional problems rather than having to resort to medical or non-medical drugs to deaden them like so many do.

When thinking of writing this article, I was wondering how much to write about. The fact is that behind each of these techniques is a wealth of information about how and why they work, as well as things you will experience by using them consistently. I have decided that, for the sake of clarity and conciseness, I will leave explanation of all those aspects to another article and in this one simply tell you how to do each technique. For now, you will simply have to trust me that there is a rhyme and reason to these techniques, a history, and that they all do work, exactly as I describe.

Here are the eight techniques:

Technique One: Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)
To do this technique you tap on various energy meridians on the body while focusing on an emotional problem you have. Rather than describe the whole exact technique here, I will refer you to the manual where I learned it. I do this because, due to its nature, to describe it in words is quite hard (while simply showing it to someone in person is quite easy). You can get the free manual that teaches it HERE.

Technique Two: The Touch Technique
To do this technique, simply locate the area where you feel bad and then with your palm lightly rub directly on the skin where you feel the emotional pain. Continue to do this until you feel sufficiently better.

Technique Three: The Out Technique
To do this technique, locate the pain (emotional or otherwise) you feel in your body. Often this will be in your solar plexus region. Then ask yourself, “Where does this pain want to go out?” You should immediately get a sense of where it wants to go out of your body, the path of exit. For example, it could be up out the top of your head, or up and out of your mouth, or down your arms and out of your hands. You will intuitively know. Then, once you get this sense of where the pain wants to go out, guide it there with your will. In other words, in the same way that you cause your arm to move or do millions of other things with your body, will the pain to move where it wants to go. Then continue to will the pain to go out along the path you intuitively discovered until the pain is gone or lessened to a bearable level.

Technique Four: The In/Out Technique
To do this technique, you also use your will like in the last one. Only, for this one, imagine that there is good energy all around you (because in fact there is). Now, with your will, grab some of that energy and move it from below you through the seat of your pants up through your torso and neck and then out the top of your head. Imagine the energy as an upside-down waterfall moving through you, from bottom to top. Continue to do this until you feel sufficiently better.

Technique Five: The Light Bulb Technique
This technique is exactly like the previous technique in that you are moving good energy through your body, only this time you increase the thickness/power of this good energy by bringing a 100 watt light bulb, turned on, close to where you feel the emotional pain (for me this was in most cases my solar plexus, so I would bring the light bulb close to my upper chest). Then, after moving the light bulb as close as is comfortable (the closer it is to the center of the emotional pain the more powerfully it will work), use your will to grab on to the energy in the center of the bulb and will the energy (in my case) down into your solar plexus and then up out of the top of your head. Imagine it as a stream of energy moving through you. Continue to do this until you feel sufficiently better.

Technique Six: The Will Strong Technique
To do this technique, locate the area where you feel bad and then will that area to go strong (remember, you do this in the same way you do everything else, from reading to walking – you will it to happen). Continue to do this until you feel sufficiently better. Conversely, if you want to feel better overall, imagine different parts of your body, such as your heart, liver, kidneys, joints, brain, etc., and while imagining each of them, will them to go strong. Spend about 10 seconds on each one. By doing this you will gradually feel better throughout your whole body.

Technique Seven: The Truth Technique
To do this technique, repeat the statement “the Urantia Book is true” over and over again in your mind. Continue to do this until you feel sufficiently better. What is the Urantia Book? Check it out HERE. And when you use this statement, make sure you know what “the Urantia Book” refers to because it wont work other wise. Just glancing at the website will likely be enough to solve this problem.

Technique Eight: The Urantia Book Technique
To do this technique, buy the Urantia Book (I suggest the leather bound copy as it lasts longer, you can get it HERE), and then when lying down for whatever reason (whether it be to sleep, to read, to rest, etc.) put the Urantia Book directly on top of your solar plexus. Leave the book there until you feel sufficiently better.

So there you have it! The eight techniques I’ve used to eliminate the major emotional handicaps I’ve dealt with in my life, and then to prevent them from coming back. It is important to recognize that with all these techniques, the more you do them the better you will feel. The amount better you feel will be directly proportional to how much you put these techniques in action. You may not understand how they work, but I promise you, they do.

The techniques are put in reverse order of powerfulness, with technique one being the technique that works the slowest and technique eight being the technique that works the fastest. But even though some of the techniques are more powerful than the others, each technique has different advantages and disadvantages and all are still useful. For example, EFT, while relatively weak on general emotional problems such as depression, is better than the other techniques for resolving specific emotional problems such as phobias. On the other hand, the Touch Technique works more quickly than EFT for general problems but is less effective at pinpointing the specific. The use of each technique comes down to balance – using the right technique (or combination of techniques) at the right time, depending on the situation. Even though when I am really feeling bad I go straight to the most powerful technique (or use a combination of the most powerful techniques), I still put to use all of the techniques at various different times. Again, it comes down to the need and the situation. Personally, I find them all important and I love knowing that so many different approaches work.

In conclusion, as my Dad says, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, so try these techniques out during a time of need and see if they work for you. My fondest hope is that they will. They have changed my life. Will they change yours?

How to Do the Impossible: Your Imagination is Real

So, I’ve been reflecting recently more on our intention or will, and how it is an incredible power as I outlined in my last article. Now I would like to expound more on how to go about developing it. In my last article the main point I outlined was that our will grows stronger and gains more power the more we use it. But how can we go about developing this power? The secret I would like to talk about today is the mental world. All of this has been falling together for me recently.

Basically, I have come to the conclusion that mentally willing yourself to do something (by imagining yourself doing it) is the same as actually doing it physically. Why have I come to this conclusion? Well, let me show you the pieces of the puzzle that have been coming together for me. There are four supporting facts.

The first supporting fact came to my knowledge about a month ago. Ever heard of the book The Intention Experiment by Lynne McTaggart? In it she recounts many scientific experiments all having to do with intention. Well, one specific experiment she mentions I found to be of particular interest. There was a group of volunteers, all aged between 20 and 35, that were asked to imagine flexing their biceps as hard as they could in a daily training session conducted 5 days a week. It was made sure that they did not do any other type of training on those muscles during this time. At the end of the experiment, it was found that their biceps’ muscle mass had increased by an amazing 13.5% and that this increase in size stuck around for three months afterwards! So what is the conclusion we can draw from this? We can conclude that regularly imagining yourself flexing a muscle will in fact increase that muscles size and strength just like actually physically flexing it would. Supporting fact #1!

The next supporting fact is the well known to the sports industry. It is called imagery. What is it? Quite simply, it is practicing a sport in your mind in order to get better at it in reality. That’s right, mental practice! And it works! Apparently, there are somewhere around 100 scientific studies that document this effect. A clear example is one I heard about several years ago, by nature of where my family lived – on a golf course. I learned from friends that played golf that by practicing your golf swing in your mind, you will get better at your golf swing in physical reality! So what is the conclusion we can come to here? The conclusion we come to is that when imagining yourself practicing a skill in your mind, you will get better at it just as if you had physically done it! Supporting fact #2!

The next supporting fact is less concrete, but I think it ties in beautifully. Most of us have heard of something called astral projection. What is it? It is, in essence, being able to see a place in your mind as if you were actually there – as in, your are able to see what is really going on at that place in real time, even though you may be hundreds of miles away from that actual spot! You do it by “projecting” yourself – i.e., imagining yourself there. When I was young, I heard a story from my mom about a friend of our family. He was in the army, and apparently he would get quite lonely when he was stationed in faraway lands. To pass the time, he would imagine himself back at his home with his wife and kids. He would see them in his mind as if he were really there, follow them around from room to room – even the bathroom! Now here’s what is interesting. Apparently, he did this so much that he started to get good at it. So good, in fact, that when calling his family on the phone he would be able to tell in what room each of them were! It got to the point where his wife had to ask him to stop because it was embarrassing that he could see them when they went to the bathroom! So what does this story tell us? It provides evidence that seeing in your mind really is the same as actually physically seeing it. Supporting fact #3!

So what is the final supporting fact? It is one I just thought of today after reflecting on a blog comment I read yesterday by a person tagged as Maxim (you can read it in full here). It ties a few things together, but what makes it most fascinating are the new possibilities it illustrates. Maxim was looking for away to cure his eyesight:

“Previously I read an article (can’t find it now) basically it talked about how psychiatrists conducted an experiment: What they did is they hooked up an athlete to the machine that measures the brain activity and asked the athlete to run 1k and recorded the results. Afterwards they came back to the lab and asked the athlete to imagine that he is running the same 1k – and guess what, all the same nerves fired and thought patterns were exactly the same! Their conclusion was that the brain cannot distinguish between reality and your internal world of imagining.”

This is just what we have talked about. Maxim was working the same way we are, taking the facts to come to new conclusions. He continues:

And then it struck me, there’s a saying “if you’ve been there in you mind, you’ll be there in your body”. Instantly, almost somewhere from inside, I got this feeling – what if I convince myself on a subconscious level that I have the perfect eyesight. Worth a try! So I closed my eyes and tried to imagine as if I see everything perfectly! Right away I encountered a problem, I couldn’t imagine anything perfectly! I imagined myself outside my house on the street looking at a ‘stop’ sign and in my mind I couldn’t imagine it clearly. When I came upon that problem I smiled and said to myself “so this is where the problem lies”.

This is half of the fourth supporting fact: that if you can’t do it physically, you wont be able to imagine doing it mentally. I hit upon this myself when I tried imagining, from the first person, doing something I would love to do: fly. I couldn’t do it! I could not imagine myself flying!! I thought back to this story from Maxim and realized to myself: there’s something to this. It really is true that if you can’t do it physically, you can’t do it mentally. This would also mean that if you CAN do it physically, then you will be able to do it mentally.

So what is the second half of the fourth supporting fact? Here is where it gets REALLY interesting. It is illustrated in the last part of Maxim’s story:

For another week everyday I was trying to imagine that I see everything perfectly and finally it ‘clicked’ in my mind I could imagine anything around me as if I saw it clearly! I reminded myself, to take it one step at a time. But what would be the next step? . . . I went outside to sit on the porch and think. As I was sitting I closed my eyes and started imagining everything as if I see it perfectly. Then I opened my eyes very fast without blinking and BAM! I was seeing everything clearly almost 20/20, but not for long . . . I took a rest, thought about it for a second, and then repeated – same thing happened, I saw perfectly but only for an instant . . . By the way, here’s the thing with imagining . . . when I say imagine, what I mean is SEE really try to see in your minds eye as if you see everything perfectly.

The astonishing thing that this last part shows is the second half of the fourth supporting fact: that by practicing doing something in your mind that you can’t yet do physically, if you ever can get to the point where you CAN do it mentally you will in fact then also be able to do it physically! So it works in reverse! What you first accomplish in your mind will transfer over to your abilities in the physical world! So what does this mean for me? It means that if I can ever get to the point where I can imagine myself flying, I will be able to physically fly! How cool is that? And don’t forget the law revealed in my last article on will. Your ability to do something increases the more you try to do it. So this means that the more you try to mentally imagine something, the more your capability to imagine it will increase. Therefore, if I practice in my mind long enough, I should eventually be able to imagine myself flying . . . and be able to fly for real! (I hope!)

So what else can you do when you know that doing something mentally is the same as doing it physically? Well, for one, get your morning exercise done early! Wake up, turn off your alarm, close your eyes, and imagine yourself running on a beach somewhere! Do this for 30 minutes! No more running outside in sub zero temperatures during the winter, yah! Then mentally project yourself, like the masters in the book The Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East, to your job while still lying on your bed. No more long hours stuck in traffic! Hey, why not take a half an hour trip to Egypt while your at it, like in the movie Jumper? Enjoy the scenery at the top of the sphinx! Finally, get up for real and go fly around town in the air like superman. After all, just yesterday you were able to perfect this technique in your mind!

Can’t do any of this stuff yet? Don’t be discouraged! It just takes practice!!!

Faith (and Its Power): The True Definition

Faith. For most of my life it has been a great mystery. The mystery was, how can faith give one man such power as illustrated in the life of Jesus Christ and also the man named Enoch? How, using faith, can others do the same, accomplishing what many people consider impossible? After all, didn’t Jesus say, “He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.”?

While exploring what faith is in my own life, I have come to the conclusion that the definition must radically be redefined. The usual definition, that of faith being trust, confidence, or strong belief, simply is not useful for trying to figure out the power behind faith. In fact, it obscures it and leads people down wrong paths. From such definitions spring terms like “blind faith” and “faith to move mountains”, which either demoralizes faith or takes the power out of it. Faith when used in such a way becomes less meaningful.

I have come to believe that the normally understood definition is not the true one. Rather, our normally understood definitions have become diluted over time to mean something other than what they originally did. There is evidence for this idea in countries not initially exposed to Christianity, such as Japan, where there are no original words for many Christian terms with the equivalent meaning they have in Christianized countries, including faith. This implies that the word’s current meaning in Christianized countries is not real, or in other words, not subject to reality, because if something is experienced in reality then presumably there would be a word for it! The implication is that faith has come to mean something in Christianized countries that in fact does not really exist. So the question then becomes, what is the true definition of faith, that does exist? This is something that I have been trying to answer for much of my life.

My understanding of reality, as for everyone, has been shaped by my experiences. However, in my case, I have had certain extreme experiences that few others in our society have had. My thoughts have been shaped by developing, having, then overcoming the most debilitating illness known to mankind: schizophrenia. Such severe problems have caused me to have a different view about certain things than many. They have taught me by extreme example things that others have not learned because they have not “been through the fire” as it were. And from the crucible of these experiences came a new understanding of many things I had never thought of before, one of them concerning faith.

My new understanding of faith started after working hard at overcoming my diagnosis and the other problems that plagued me such as severe depression and anxiety. Because of persistence and lots of effort, I was able to find solutions to my problems and ultimately overcome them all. I was told by my mom, after persisting in finding such things to help me, that I had “great faith”. Feeling she was on to something intuitively, I thought to myself, what is it that cases me to have great faith? What is it about me that made her say that? What do I have a great amount of? I thought about it for a while, and then the answer occurred to me – I had great motivation, great action. That was the key – I acted, and kept acting. Tying this together with faith I began to think of faith in terms of action and motivation. I also remembered the scripture “through faith they shall overcome” (D&C 61:9) and thought on how it was my action that allowed me to overcome my problems.

Another thing I later thought about was how in the New Testament, Jesus was constantly doing things with his faith. He walked on water. He turned water into wine. He healed a person who was blind from birth. He caused the lame to walk. He was using his faith to accomplish things. And I thought, what is the only thing I know of by which I accomplish things? The answer to me was clear: my will, or in other words, my ability to do things. And this is the way in which I ultimately came to define faith.

Our will is the way by which we have control over the world, the power to make things happen. This can be illustrated in the hundreds of things we do everyday, all of which are done by exercising or using our will. When we move any part of our body, we are exercising our will. When we walk, talk, read, write, or do any of thousands of other things, it happens all by way of willing it to happen. We will our body to move, and it moves. We will our thoughts to dwell on something, and they do. We will ourselves to smile and we smile. Whether it be singing, swimming, dancing, climbing, or doing any other thing, it is our will that makes it happen.

And by observing how we use our will, we also notice an interesting element involved with it. We see that there is in fact a law operating behind our use of will. We find that the more we try to do something the better we get at doing it. In other words, the more we try to do something, the greater our ability to do it becomes, until we can do it effortlessly. What we initially could not do, by consistently applying our will, we are eventually able to do. This can be seen in all skills, such as typing, riding a bike, and playing a musical instrument. When we first start to use a keyboard, the typing is painfully slow with many errors. But over the years, if the typing is kept up, the speed at which one types increases until it is so fast it is virtually instantaneous. We eventually get to the point where we can will ourselves to type a word, and it happens. It becomes easy. The same is true with riding a bike. At first we cannot do it, but with practice and repeated effort, we can, and are able to do so automatically. And with the example of playing the piano, we cannot play it at first. However, with practice we can, and with enough practice our ability to do it becomes instantaneous. Any skill we have we first started at a point where we couldn’t do it at all, and then, by consistently applying our will, we got to the point where we could do it effortlessly.

The interesting thing is, this getting better at applying our will applies to all endeavors. Significantly, every “skill” we can get better at was created by us. The keyboard has letters in an order that was invented, the bicycle has only existed for a hundred years, and every musical instrument is an invention of man. And yet, anything we keep trying to do and practice at we will eventually get better at and be able to do. The key word here is practice. The principle of getting better at an action the more we attempt to do it can be summed up in the common saying: “Practice makes perfect”. And so it is with faith, which I define as being the exact same thing as our will.

We now can come to parable given by Jesus in Luke 17 on how to increase faith. Here is what it says:

And the apostles said unto the Lord, ‘Increase our faith’. And the Lord said, ‘If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, “Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea”, and it should obey you. But which of you, having a servant ploughing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, “Go and sit down to meat?” And will not rather say unto him, “Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken: and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?” Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not. So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, “We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do”.’ (Luke 17:5-10 KJV)

If faith is defined as trust or confidence as it sometimes is, then this parable makes little sense as to how to increase ones faith. However, if we apply the new definition of faith as being one’s will or ability to do, with the understanding that it grows stronger as one uses it, the meaning of this parable suddenly becomes clear. Jesus is saying that there is only one way to increase your faith, and that is through plain old work – exercising your will. There is no way to skip this or to go around it. Thus, you cannot be the one sitting at the table enjoying the fruits and power of faith until you have worked hard to achieve that faith. Then, once you have achieved it, you can finally sit at the table and eat, enjoying the power of the faith that you have. There is no one to thank us for doing that work because it is work that is “our duty to do”. The opposite is death, and so we have no choice but to work hard in order to increase our faith because the alternative is to stagnate and lose power. No one can, or will, do the work for us, because we ourselves are the prime beneficiaries, and only we can increase our own faith.

So how can our will do marvelous things? This mystery is uncovered by understanding other aspects of our will. Our will is not limited simply to controlling the movement of our body or the understanding of information as the examples before illustrated, but its power extends even farther.

For one, our will can be used to control our bodies internal mechanisms. I have watched a program on the discovery channel about a man named Wim Hof who they called the “iceman” because he could will himself to heat up. He demonstrated this ability by successfully running a half marathon (21 km) above the artic circle in midwinter wearing only a pair of shorts and no shoes, where the ground temperature was 35 below Celsius! This type of thing is also demonstrated by Tibetan monks, who have been shown to have the ability to wrap themselves with ice cold wet towels and then produce enough heat over several hours to dry those towels completely!

Our will can also be used to give us strength. I have learned through muscle testing, for example, that if I test weak on a certain subject, I can will myself to go strong on that subject, test myself again, and then I am strong! I can will the problem to “correct” too rather than willing it go strong, and the same thing happens.

But it doesn’t stop there – our will can be used in ways that affects things outside of the body as well! For example, rather than only being able to will myself strong, I can also will others to go strong when they are found to test weak on a subject, and they become strong. Also, from personal experience I have learned that an invisible energy that surrounds us, called “chi”, can be moved around simply by willing it to move around. In other words, it can be controlled by our will.

I believe that our will in fact has the power to control the world in any way we can think to will it. However, while theoretically it is possible to will the world to be affected in any way, it is important to remember that, as has been previously illustrated, to achieve such power of will takes lots of practice. We wont be able to do it to begin with, but if we continue to try, we will get better and better until the day comes when we can do it, and will eventually get to the point where we can do it effortlessly.

And so, now we can understand the miracles done by Jesus. Jesus had attained a very high power of will. By constantly exercising his will, he eventually he attained many skills that others did not have: walking on water, calming the sea, turning water into wine, healing all sicknesses. And he also even said “If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.” That is the power of our will, our faith. It is far reaching and can have power over anything if we simply apply ourselves and act, practicing over and over again until we achieve the level of proficiency we want.

Finally, all this explains why we see few people exercising the kind of faith to move mountains. It takes a long time to develop such faith, and who has the patience to sit around willing something to happen for hours every day for years and see nothing initially happen, when on top of that they don’t even know that that is what it takes in order to achieve that ability? Without the knowledge of how faith really works, hardly anyone has the motivation to continue with such an undertaking.