If you look at these clips of Benny Hinn mesmerising his audience in the name of Jesus, it seems pretty obvious that he's a fraud, which kind of implies that his congregation must be dumber than dumb.  But look at the size of the audience!



Benny Hinn relies on his charisma and people's faith in the existence of God to manipulate people.  Now when I look at clips like these of martial art 'masters' and their 'followers' I can see a strong parallel. 



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq0BGVw6O8E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwejASuQIFk

There's plenty more of this shit, too.

I personally can't get my head round it.  You would think that with all the examples widely available of combat sport and street fights, that people would be starting to get a clue about what the martial arts are really about, i.e. the fight.  But instead, there seems to be a trend in the opposite direction.  In recent years the ki and chi projection bullshit has become even more ridiculous than it was prior to 1993. 

People are still falling for it.  I still get e-mails from people who seem to have made a break into fighting practice, asking me what I think of this or that demonstration of awesome chi power.  I guess people will always want a magic pill or a way of escaping the fight.  They'll do anything to avoid actually having to fight.

There's no way around the fight.  The clips above represent one extreme of the delusion, the obvious (I hope) extreme.  The fight as I've tried to show in recent posts, represents the reality.   Most martial art practices lie somewhere in between, but all too many, including the so-called reality-based practices, rely on faith.  Just like Benny Hinn.