Jerry Alan Johnson

After a lifetime of intense training as a martial artist, healer, scholar, and priest, Professor Jerry Alan Johnson is an enigma to the West. He is considered to be one of the few non-Chinese kungfu masters to have ever completed all four requirements said to lead a person toward true inner peace and harmony. Traditionally, this difficult self-mastery of the body, speech, and mind is said to lead to inner enlightenment (Figure 1.561).

As a Martial Artist, he is internationally renowned as a grandmaster of several styles of esoteric Daoist Wudang internal martial arts, including Baguazhang, Chen Family Taijiquan, Yang Family Taijiquan, and Yiquan Neigong training.

Having studied the martial arts for over 57 years, he is also a grandmaster of Buddhist Mi Tsung-I Shaolin, and is certified as a 6th Degree Black Belt Master-Instructor through several Chinese martial arts associations in Taiwan, the United States, Canada, and the Peoples Republic of China.

As a Healer, he is one of the few internationally recognized non-Chinese grandmasters, clinical doctors, and professors of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Having studied Chinese Energetic Medicine for more than 50 years, he is recognized as America’s leading authority on Medical Qigong Therapy; and in China, he is considered the “Father of Medical Qigong Therapy to the West.”

Specializing in clinical oncology, he is licensed as a Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine (D.T.C.M.) through the People's Republic of China Ministry of Health, and has served on both national and international committees to promote the practice of Chinese Energetic Medicine.

As a Scholar, he has written 46 books, including 11 workbooks on internal martial arts, martial qigong, and neigong training; 11 clinical textbooks on medical qigong therapy and healing applications; 18 workbooks on esoteric Daoist mysticism; 3 instructional workbooks on ancient Christian mysticism; 2 instructional workbooks on esoteric Buddhist mysticism, and 1 autobiography.

He has also produced and starred in 25 instructional DVDs, 8 that focused on internal martial arts training, and 17 on medical qigong therapy.

As a Priest, he received his first Lu ordination in 2005, and was licensed as a Zhengyi Daoist priest at the Celestial Masters Mansion in the Longhu Shan Monastery, in Jiangxi, China. Later, in 2008, after receiving his second Lu ordination he was promoted to senior abbot of the Tian Yun Gong Zhengyi Daoist Temple, located in Monterey, California.

Today, Professor Johnson resides as the senior abbot of Bian Hua Gong (The Temple of Change and Transformation), currently located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.

For the past 57 years, Professor Johnson has extensively studied and practiced esoteric Christian, Daoist, and Buddhist mysticism. Yet, as the senior abbot of Bian Hua Gong, he exclusively runs the temple as a teaching facility rather than a religious organization. The primary goal being to assist and educate those interested in learning martial, medical, and mystical teachings from a perspective of personal embodiment, spiritual growth, and radiant transformation; and to help these individuals apply this information towards their own spiritual evolution, regardless of their current religious beliefs.