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Mind Penetration: The Ancient Art of Mental Mastery Paperback – November 1, 2007

by Dr. Haha Lung (Author)
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To read the mind of your enemy, to turn his psyche to your own purpose, and to claim victory without ever landing a blow, these are the secrets of I-Hsing. Masters of I-Hsing's greatest weapon, the Mind-Fist, gain more than an advantage over their foes, they gain control of them.

Dr. Haha Lung adds to his canon of easy-to-understand, relevant martial arts instruction with this indispensable guide to dominating your enemy's mind. In his previous classics, Mind Control and Mind Manipulation, he laid the groundwork for smashing your enemy's mental defenses. In Mind Penetration, Dr. Lung teaches the skills and techniques behind this seemingly supernatural ability to bend anyone to your will.

In this comprehensive guide to I-Hsing you will:

 



   •  Explore the origin and history of mind manipulation

 


   •  Discover its practice in the ancient Far East and in the modern West

 


   •  Learn how to control the minds of your enemies

 


   •  Gain confidence and knowledge through clear descriptions and helpful illustrations

Dr. Haha Lung is the author of more than a dozen books on martial arts, including The Nine Halls of Death, Assassin!, Mind Manipulation, Ninja Shadowland, Knights of Darkness, Mind Control: The Ancient Art of Psychological Warfare, and The Lost Fighting Arts of Vietnam.

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    Citadel
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    November 1, 2007
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  6. ISBN-10
    0806528524
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0806528526
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Citadel (November 1, 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0806528524
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0806528526
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.75 x 8 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Nick Cantino
5.0 out of 5 stars Essential
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 Huge fan of Dr. Lung’s work. I’ve found his books to be super helpful and am on a quest to own them all!
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Sami Kinnunen
5.0 out of 5 stars good book
Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2014
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haha lung books are good ancient wisdom, not only just fighting but reality and wisdom of life. Good book ill rekommend
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Boundary Rider
4.0 out of 5 stars Reviewing Mind Penetration by Dr Haha Lung
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Reviewing "Mind Penetration" by Dr. Haha Lung

"Mind Penetration" was recommended to me by my friend Dr. Desmond Oon who lives at Redondo Beach in California. Desmond is a World Master Tennis Coach, and he has adapted many of the techniques of Eastern mind control to the mental aspects of championship tennis. He created the program "Spiritual Tennis" and authored two books, "Soft Tennis" and "Can Eastern Wisdom Improve Your Tennis? You Bet." Presently, he is producing an educational video titled "Tai Chi Tennis."

Desmond made his suggestion as he was aware that for the past year I have been heavily involved in trying to get people out of the grasp of a cult which has 25 congregations spread around the states of Australia. "Mind Penetration" was highly relevant reading in understanding how cults and cult leaders manipulate the minds of those whom they enslave, and particularly useful for helping me to get inside the head of the cult leader to neutralise his influence, thus allowing the people I'm trying to help to break free of his control.

So much for the "Why" of how I came to this book, but the "What is in it" is more germane to this review.

Essentially "Mind Penetration" is both a review and a synthesis of as many as ten other books on oriental mind mastery either written by Haha Lung himself, or jointly, or under pseudonym. Such mind mastery is intimately connected to the physicality of martial arts. So, just as Desmond Oon had shown to me through tennis, Haha Lung unites body and mind directed towards mental mastery, without necessarily requiring me to take up any of the variety of physical martial arts. For me this was waging battle against an opponent by dominating his mind, and so negating his power.

Lung starts his review in India and shows how so much of what the West regards as Chinese/Japanese wisdom actually originated in India well before the Buddha was enlightened. The Buddha himself was raised in this wisdom, and through the spread of Buddhism this mind mastery knowledge went first to China and then to Japan, to take the forms which westerners most easily recognise in our times.

I was fortunate in that before I heard of this book I had already read Machiavelli's "The Prince" , Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" and the much more recent "Thick Face, Black heart" by Chin-ning Chu, and these are referenced In "Mind mastery". My mental set was ready for what I read.

The best analogy I can suggest about this book is that it is like taking a helicopter ride over a landscape of peaks of wisdom about how to win in the real world, especially against opponents who appear invincible. On each peak which the helicopter can hover over there is a succinct statement of principles needed to tackle specific aspects of the engagement in the battle. However, If one wished to get out of the helicopter on the peak to go down that particular mountain to get the fine detail of what is said then that is fine, but not really necessary. However, this would be the characteristic Western response dominated as it is by a rational scientific paradigm, and reluctant to accept the accumulated wisdom of human experience.

For me it is enough to accept the distillation of wisdom on the mountain top and use it to tap in to both my past experience and my present circumstances to then shape my thinking on how I will deal with this cult leader I am out to outwit and defeat. I am dealing with an Emperor who has no clothes and my intention is to catch him butt-naked in the glare of reality for all his followers to see. However, I am savvy enough to realise that those who follow him are just that --- "followers" --- and not all of them will want to see the reality of their fraudulent leader, and will prefer to stay enslaved. But if those I am seeking to get out of the clutches of this man and his cult are broken free it will have been worth it.

Using the operation of a wide variety of secret societies running in parallel to religious cult behaviour Haha Lung demonstrates the structure, power/control dimensions, and affect levels of being inside such groups to then tackle the problems of dealing with them and defeating their power.

His advice is concise and terse, almost to the point of sounding like one-liners, but this is to be expected as it is the aphoristic style of Asian thinking. These maxims act as triggers to line up my thinking with my situation, accepting what fits comfortably, adapting near misses, and discarding the "not needed on board", so that I'm not overloaded and can operate swiftly and flexibly. In my case it is adapting what he has to say to a form of guerrilla warfare in which my opponent and I may never meet, but he will always suffer from what I do. This much I have learnt from "Thick Face, Black Heart" which is currently the preferred book of strategy for China as the Sleeping Dragon comes to life in the 21st Century.

His style is racy, colloquial, down to earth, easy to read, and more like we are involved in an active conversation rather than being involved in a literary exercise.

One of the ways I asess the value of something I've read is from the number of pages I have turned down a corner for future reference or reconsideration --- "Mind Penetration" has many of them. This was a book I was ready for, and has been very helpful to me to confirm my direction and intention as well as reality testing to avoid possible pitfalls and hubris.

So if you, as a potential reader of "Mind Penetration", are open to stepping outside the square of western rationalism, willing to think beyond what you think you know, and open to wisdom which has a pedigree of more than three thousand years of development, then you stand to benefit from the experience. Nothing inscrutable about it --- just refined to the minimum of expression to embody the maximum of meaning, and not for lazy thinkers.
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JULY
5.0 out of 5 stars GIFT
Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2013
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BOUGHT IT AS A GIFT AND RECIPIENT LOVES IT. I WISH THERE WAS MORE I COULD TELL YOU, BUT I HAVEN'T READ IT.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2017
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Great writer!
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demetrius
5.0 out of 5 stars Broke it down well.
Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2014
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I felt like a genius half way through the book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars great read can't wait to try this stuff at home ; )
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2014
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Excellent recipe book for mental mastery. It's a real page turner. I can't wait to try this stuff at home ; )
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dan
1.0 out of 5 stars Very basic concepts laid out as if written for a 5-year-old
Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2023
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If you have taken any psychology courses or you have an IQ that is average then you will be offended at how poorly written this book is. This is super basic information and I would recommend getting a version of The art of War that has been broken down for more easy translation because you will get so much more out of that as compared to this book which is written for a 10 year old to understand the concepts and easily read it. Even the font is large to make the book appear larger than it really should be. All of the information could have fit in 15 pages.
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