"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.