As of yesterday (Sunday, October 9th, 2005), a friend of mine invited me into a seminar. Actually, at that time I was staying at my place preparing myself on doing several assignments for several days ahead such as the report on lab work about workbench and some homeworks on thermodynamics subject. Just after mid day, I received a message in my cellphone noting that there was somekind of seminar held at Sabuga by ITB's chemistry community.
As I still haven't got anything to do at that time plus it's been a while since I met that friend of mine, so I decided to pay a short visit on the occasion. At first, I thought the event would be quite big that there would be a lot of people and I had an image in my mind that Sabuga would be full of people and crowds. It turned out to be not. After I arrived at Sabuga, I couldn't see any crowds at all. So I strolled around to outside ring of Sabuga and then I found a small room filled with people. That was it. I met my friend there and then I was invited to join the seminar. At first, I was a little bit unspirited since I had a load of assignments waiting at home and I'd rather be doing it. But what the heck, I decided to observe. Who knows I might actually get something useful from it.
So I went in and sat down. It appeared that the seminar was held by a chemistry community whom called themselves by the name Alchemist (I didn't quite know the details, I forgot). The seminar itself was bringing up the topic of chemical energy and human body. There were two speakers as I recalled. The one was some person from energy-based martial art (tenaga dalam thingies) and the other one was a bachelor in chemistry science.
OK, first, I'd like to recall what the scientist said. Basically, what he talked about was something which I've learned years ago at my senior high school, on how human's body can generate energy. Yeah yeah yeah, he started talking about those carbohydrates, protein, cells, glucose, ATP, and stuff and stuff. When I sat there, listening, it was like going back to my times at senior high school. Back then, on my high school era, I had always been bored with that lesson because there had been just so many things that I couldn't understand and it had made several chain reactions or links. Therefore, if you lost a link, you'd have a hard time trying to understand the rest of the process. In addtion on why I could not master the subject very well would because there had been so many bio-chemical terminologies, properties, and roles I could not remember all of them at once. In short, I had been to lazy to study on that subject.
Now, the second speaker on that seminar talked about human's energy. Well, since he was actually a person came from the field of martial arts, his topic was around on applying those energy created by our body to the surroundings. He supported that which the first speaker came up to with and agreed upon his sayings although he didn't fully understand it. But he added that only several percents of the energy generated by the body could be channeled to do things. That was, he said, where the martial arts came in. It helped people to efficiently maximize their energy channeling so they could use all of the energy produced by one's body. Also, he told the participants of the seminar that we could also concentrate that energy into certain point in our body. For example, to carry a chair or tables, you had to use both hands to grab it and perhaps your hip to support it. Why do you have to waste such efforts if you could just concentrate all of your energy to one of your finger and lift the chair or table with it?
Another thing that the second speaker said was that about self-suggesting. Or probably, in they way I grasped it, you could also call it as a self-confidence, self-motivating, self-perception, or whatever self-thingies you'd call that. Basically, he said that we could set our mind to one perception and it will happen according to it. One's mind perception is so strong that it could change things. Sounded kind of philosophical to me at first, but then he gave an example. Some people would call this a mind game. He raised his hand and told everybody in the room to concentrate to and only to his hand. He also started to continually telling people to focus. Now, when I say continually, it was like he's going to hypnotize people but that wasn't it. He didn't hypnotized.
And then after a long while, he stopped. He started to walked around asking people what they saw. He asked the audience whether they saw his hand deforming, and then several people raised their hands. Then he asked whether any of the audience saw his hand becoming longer, then, again, several people raised their hands. Several questions that he asked were the emergence of aura around his hand and the disappearance or addition on one of his finger.
The conclusion that he brought was that, our mind can do anything, if we believe in it. He also added that his brains and the audience's were somehow connected so that he could know what's in the audience's mind. The power of the mind's perception could do a lot of and change things and so on and so forth. He even said that, in the most extreme case, one could turned oneself into a dragon or whatever. Well, I couldn't believe that far, but it seemed that it resembles genjutsu or illusionary technique or even hypnotize. I don't know. Mind's perception.
But it was a pity that he didn't tell us (the audience) in details on how to do so (channeling energy, strengthening mind's perception, etc). All he said that it all needed a lot of intensive training and everybody can do it. In the end, the second speaker ended his presentation with a quiz giving the audiences gift in form of cassettes of his recording (what the?), supplemental drinks, and several vouchers.
