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There's people who are mentally ill who try to "help" themselves in every practice. The psychotic reaction is from already being mentally ill when they started. They have a psychotic break and then blame the practice.

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Ummm, how about the possibility that this man (described in the web link) was actually energetically connected to a place where he was receiving information in the form of these hallucinations?

Or perhaps it was a part of him trying to communicate with him in an obtrusive manner?

If someone is doing spiritual practices and they start having hallucinations ... there might be a chance that something pretty amazing is going on. If it isn't interfering with your life in a threatening manner, maybe trying to "cure" it isn't the best thing.

I'm reminded here of the story about Milton Erickosn and the person who had psychotic episodes. He taught the person to go into deep trance and have the episodes in time distortion, so only a few minutes would go by. He then gave the person the option to take the episodes and mail them to him in envelopes. Very creative and respectful approach.

It's a possibility. There are otherwordly beings who appear to people and one would think they are hallucinating instead of believing that the being actually exists.

It's a good idea to assume anything experienced in qigong has meaning, and thus some from of reality. I'll leave ontologists to the exact definition of reality for the time being.

For example, I visualized the Masters' energy going into me through the palms of my hands. When I let one of my Masters know, she told me that the place was connected directly to the heart via qi channels. My blood pressure lowered from high to normal. The most reasonable explanation would be that somehow my inner mind was able to let my conscious awareness know about the changes that were happening within my circulatory system through this visual.

The most important aspect of any communication is the information, not the reality of the communicators.

The mind in essence, controls the body. The mind causes health or disease depending on emotions and or environmental effects.

SFQ and other energy practices such as Yoga enable the mind to be at "cause" instead of "effect" which a lot of us are in at any given point. The mind then releases the blockages using SFQ.