Apr '25 • TRAINING🥷
"The $5 Book That Unlocked Christ, Chi… and Changed My Power Forever"
— A true story about internal power, the search for truth, and the mysterious book that changed my life.
Let me take you back to 2007. I was living in Hong Kong, training hard, obsessed with developing internal power. You know — the kind of mind-force you see in the old masters. The unshakeable energy that makes people stop mid-sentence and stare. That real chi.
But I wasn’t just after power. I had bigger questions burning in me.
One of them was: "Was the Christ real?"
I was raised Catholic, had stopped going to church, but the teachings of Christ still resonated deep in my bones. At the same time, I had friends — and had seen enough content online — saying Jesus was made up. A story. A myth.
Part of me thought, maybe that’s just old programming.
But the question wouldn't leave me.
And I was also asking, how do I develop internal Wing Chun to a level like my Sigong? Not just mimic it. But manifest it.
So I sat with it all. Christ. Power. Truth.
Then something strange happened.
A few days later I was walking through Lamma Island — a little island town off Hong Kong where I lived at the time — and passed this secondhand bookstall. The guy running it, Lama Nick (legend), always had a random collection of books. Spiritual, weird, wonderful.
This day, one title caught my eye:
“The Magus of Strovolos.”
I picked it up. Read the back. It was about a Christian mystic and healer who was doing things like the Christ — documented cases of healing, deep wisdom, powerful spiritual practices.
I bought the book for $5.
And I devoured it.
(Not literally. I read it.)
Turns out, this man — Stylianos Atteshlis, known as “Daskalos” — wasn’t just some airy fairy guru. His teachings were practical, powerful, and based on real inner development. He taught about something called the etheric double — the energetic body — and how it connects to your thoughts, emotions, and even your physical health.
I started practicing the meditations in that book.
And things got weird.
Good weird.
One day, I was on the ferry heading into the city for training and my body felt… HUGE. Like 5 times the size. I had to open my eyes to check. The feeling was so intense it felt like my energetic body had expanded beyond my skin.
That moment changed everything.
I reached out to the Researchers of Truth (the group who had preserved Daskalos’ teachings), attended my first seminar in 2009, and by 2014, I moved to Cyprus to study with them for five years.
What I learned there was priceless.
I learned:
- How to sense energy
- How to move energy
- How to visualize and direct it with precision
- How to heal and harmonize emotional patterns
- How to consciously work with the etheric double, emotional body, and mental body
That experience reshaped not only my meditation practice…It transformed my Kung Fu.
It gave me the keys to unlocking internal power.
The Truth is…
You’re more than a physical body.
You are energy. You are mind. You are spirit.
And when you train all three, you become unstoppable — in your art and in your life.
I’ve woven everything I learned — from the Researchers of Truth, my time in Hong Kong, decades in Wing Chun, and my deepest meditations — into our training inside One Tao Academy.
If you're ready to go beyond surface-level practice...If you're ready to cultivate real internal power —…the kind that transforms not just your body, but your entire life —
One Tao Academy is where we go deep into the energy body, the mind force, the mystical roots of internal martial arts, and how to live as a modern-day warrior of peace.
This path is open to anyone—but it’s not for everyone.
If you feel the call to go deeper, to cultivate true internal power, and to bring that stillness into your strikes, your spirit, and your life…
Then step in.
We’ll train together. And rise together.
See you inside.
— Sifu John
P.S. If the idea of working with your energetic body and understanding the etheric double sparked something in you… wait until you train it.
Inside One Tao Academy, we go deep into exactly how to sense, move, and express energy — not just in theory, but through your strikes, your stillness, and your everyday life.
The 75-Day Power Path Challenge is your doorway in .
You’ll train with us, experience the energy body firsthand, and even have a shot at winning a wooden dummy, private lessons, and One Tao gear.
Ready to feel what most people only talk about?👉 Join One Tao Academy
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