Mental Dominance: The Art of Ninja Mind Power

BOOKS PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED

by Dr. Haha Lung

The Ancient Art of Strangulation (1995)

Assassin! Secrets of the Cult of Assassins (1997)

The Ninja Craft (1997)

Knights of Darkness (1998)

Lost Fighting Art of Vietnam (2006)

Mind Control (2006)

Written with Christopher B. Prowant

Shadowhand: Secrets of Ninja Taisavaki (2000)

The Black Science: Ancient and Modern Techniques of Ninja Mind Manipulation (2001)

Written as Ralf Dean Omar

Death on Your Doorstep: 101 Weapons in the Home (1993)

Prison Killing Techniques: Blade, Bludgeon & Bomb (2001)

Written as Dirk Skinner

Street Ninja: Ancient Secrets for Mastering Today’s Mean Streets (1995)

X-Treme Boxing: Secrets of the Savage Street Boxer (2002) with Christopher B. Prowant

MENTAL DOMINANCE

The Art of Ninja Mind Power

DR. HAHA LUNG

with

CHRISTOPHER B. PROWANT

CITADEL PRESS

Kensington Publishing Corp.

www.kensingtonbooks.com

All copyrighted material within is Attributor Protected.

To Officer John Reed,

Shirley Marsee and Agnes Shifferly,

Eric Tucker, Eddie Harris,

and the Warriors of The Zendokan

Table of Contents

BOOKS PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED

Title Page

Dedication

INTRODUCTION - East or West: All’s Fair in Love and War

1 - One Hand Watches the Other

2 - Seduction and Strategy: The Two-Headed Coin

3 - India: The Guru Effect

4 - Tibet: Snow Lion, Fire Dragon

5 - China: The Tao of Seduction

6 - Vietnam

7 - Japan : Silk and Steel

8 - Sexual Feng Shui

CONCLUSION - Two Heads Are Better Than No Head!

TABLE OF AUTHORITIES

Copyright Page

Notes

INTRODUCTION

East or West: All’s Fair in Love and War

Most people figure Shakespeare said it. Their second guess is always the Bible. Sorry.

Francis Edward Smedley (1818–1864) gets the credit for the actual phrase All’s fair in love and war.

But go a little further back to Act I of Susannah Centliure’s 1706 Love at a Venture and you’ll find: All policy’s allowed in war and love.

Even further back, one hundred years earlier, in his 1605–16 Don Quixote de la Mancha, Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) penned:

Love and War are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are allowable in the one as in the other.

Still further back? Back to where the objectivity of history and the passion of myth intermingle, always we find love and war—if not formally married to one another, then at least intimately linked (or living in sin, if you prefer), with the former all too often proving the catalyst for the launching of the latter:

• Helen of Troy ring a bell? Those were a thousand warships her face launched.

• Aeneas rejects Dido’s love, dooming Carthage and Rome to six hundred years of bloody struggle.

• How many times did Delilah’s treachery send Samson out to smite the Philistines?

• For the love of David¹ did not Prince Jonathan betray his father the King, even as Saul was locked in a life-and-death struggle with invading Philistines, a war that would ultimately prove fatal for both Saul and his son?

• Did not later King David send Uriah to war and certain death in order to take this loyal warrior’s wife?

• For the sake of one night in Igrayne’s arms, Uther Pendragon plunges a recently united Britain back into a dark age of war.

We do many strange things in the name of love—not the least of which are lie, cheat, steal—perhaps even kill.

It is as if these two—Love and War, seemingly so different—both have special dispensation to routinely traipse and tarry outside the realms of common decency.

Perhaps that’s because love and war are both inherently indecent.

Not that love is somehow indecent simply because (if you’re lucky) it involves plenty of nakedness. Rather, like war, love is indecent because it is brutal and uncompromising, an all-or-nothing proposition.

When we fall in love, all else ceases to matter or, at the very least, all else takes a backseat to our obtaining our objective—that object of our affection. Sure, we start out with the highest of morals, the best of intentions, but ... how easy is it for love unfulfilled to turn to depression to desperation to "I’ll do anything I have to to be with him/her!"

Worse yet is unrequited love—that pining heart we so carefully hand to another, only to find it posted the next day on eBay! Is it any wonder such love can all too easily become disillusioned to the point where it begins to despise the very thing that—only yesterday—it so cherished?

And so love turns to hate turns to war.

As in love, in war we have only one goal: Obtaining our objective. We may initially go to war with the most honorable of intentions—perhaps even going to war out of love. But should a campaign drag on long enough, inevitably we find our patience beginning to thin, and what it begins to thin in turn are those good intentions.

Ultimately, as in love so in war, temptation tests our honor.

An easier, more expedient way to win our war (or win our love) is presented to us—one that goes against everything we stand for, so we indignantly reject it ... first time out. But as the body bags (and heart pangs) begin to pile up, as resources become strained, that initial easier way doesn’t sound nearly as bad as it did at first.

And in the end, rather than see our land overrun by the Hun, rather than have our heart broken again, we give in to the expedient. We do what we must to win the war, the same as we do what we must to win our true love.

So you see, all really is fair in love and war—any strategy to carry the battle, any seduction to win the apple of our eye.

Or so we convince ourselves so we can better sleep at night—whether in a soft bed with something soft sleeping next to us (our reward for having mastered the Art of Seduction), or else sleeping in the overrun and hurriedly abandoned bed of our vanquished foe.

East or West, Orient or Occident: Seduction is strategy, strategy is seduction, their respective tactics and technique indistinguishable.

So all’s fair in love and war means anything goes, anything and everything is allowed—for so long as personal honor holds out—be it on the battlefield or in the bedroom.

But just because we decide all’s fair in love and war, using this convenience of conscience to justify all ruthless stratagem, questionable seduction, and downright skullduggery (means justifying end), we must never confuse all’s fair in love and war for life is fair.

Be it you’ve come looking for love or looking for war, you’ve come looking in the wrong place if you’ve come looking for a fair fight.

For, in the immortal words of Dr. John Becker:

Fair is where hogs compete for ribbons.

1

One Hand Watches the Other

In the West, we have a saying, One hand washes the other, implying that helpfulness is the way to go.

Not to imply that our Asian brothers cannot be just as helpful to one another, or as friendly and beneficial to us here in the West, but there is a similar sounding—yet decidedly different!—saying in the East:

"One hand watches the other!"

On first hearing this curious phrase, Westerners might think it a mistranslation, Surely you mean washes?"

No, watches. One hand watches the other. In some ways this is closer to the Western warning, Don’t let the left hand know what the right hand is doing.²

In the East, rather than there being a singular path to enlightenment, or to accomplishing any earthly task for that matter, there are always thought to be two paths from which to choose: a Right-handed Path and a Left-handed Path.

In general, the Right-handed path is the straighter, the more common, usually the less difficult path to follow.

Conversely, the Left-handed path is the more unconventional, controversial, difficult—perhaps even dangerous!—path in life to tempt.

Perhaps this is the same road less traveled that Frost first wondered over and then wandered down?

Choosing the Left-handed path, we all too often travel alone, shunned, perhaps scorned—perhaps even hated and hunted!—by our fellow man.

True, the trade-off and eventual payoff to treading this Left-handed path is often quicker—more ruthlessly—straight to the point. But always the price—the risk!—is thrice greater.

In the West, Left-handed-path poster children would include the impatient—or perhaps just imperious—Alexander the Great hacking his way through the Gordian Knot; Friedrich Nietzsche boldly declaring God is dead!—knowing full well he’d be celebrating the rest of his holidays alone; and Pablo Picasso, daring to draw outside the lines in order to see—and expose!—the naked universe in all her shame.

In many ways these Right-handed and Left-handed paths play at the extremes of the Asian concept of yin-yang, those seemingly contentious universal polar opposites that—despite their constant conflict—must nonetheless find balance—or at least tolerance—with one another lest this rudderless ship of the universe irretrievably list too far to starboard, spilling us all farther out into the unforgiving maelstrom of the Milky Way.

And so, for every patient and compassionate path to enlightenment we find in Asian teachers and texts, should we dare dig a little deeper, past those dusty scrolls and smiling souls, we’ll discover as well a more expedient avenue—be it only a seldom-used shortcut down a narrow side street or sinister dark alley—that nonetheless gets us to the same goal in half the time—so long as we have only half the moral qualms.

Thus in the East, for those seeking knowledge, enlightenment—and yes, seduction and power!—it has never been their way to sophomorically demand that a serious seeker on the way confine his or her choices—their path in life—to merely right or wrong.

Instead, the East more magnanimously—realistically—gives us the choice between right ... or left. And, depending on time and teacher and the temperament of both, Asian etiquette and indulgence may even allow us to mix the two—taking a pinch from here, a tincture from there, until our own personal alchemy finds balance.

And so "one hand watches the other," not so much as a prison guard watches his charge, watching not so much in order to condemn, but instead to complement—one hand adding to the other whatever strength might be missing so that both arrive at the destination together—if not hand in hand, then at least with grasping fingers relatively intact!

On second thought, "One hand watches the other" is closer akin to one hand washes the other than we first suspected.

But does that then open the door to perhaps East and West also being more similar in mind and kind than we first suspected?

Perhaps all the various Asian arts of strategy, seduction, and skullduggery we’ve gathered here to study are indeed similar to, if not the same as, our tried-and-true coy Western ploys, plots, and self-serving proposals?

Yet somehow we still insist upon seeing the mysterious East as just that—impenetrable, oh-so-inscrutable.

And so we buy the books. And we concentrate and meditate upon the ancient mandalas until we go blind, all in the hopes we’ll finally see.

And we sit at the feet of the mystic du jour, bending both our body and mind into impossible contortions, all in the hope that an errant drop of their beneficent sweat will drip down, washing away our woes, finally bathing us in enlightenment ...

But a true master never sweats. At least at the small stuff.

Still, down through the centuries, so many in the West have continued to look toward the mysterious East for wisdom and enlightenment. But, ironically, what is arguably the greatest story of personal quest and enlightenment to be found in Eastern lore, the tale of the Buddha (560–477

B.C.E.

), begins with a grand deception.

Having been told by a seer that his young son Siddhartha would either grow up to be a great and wealthy king or else a wandering, penniless beggar, Siddhartha’s father, an Indian king, staged an elaborate ruse by which he kept the boy from ever seeing anything negative about the world.

All of the young prince’s servants were kept young and healthy. If illness or age began to overtake one of them, they were immediately replaced by younger, healthier servants.

Likewise, when Siddhartha traveled from palace to palace, he was always secluded inside an enclosed sedan chair, the curtains kept tightly drawn to prevent the prince from inadvertently seeing old, ill, crippled, or poor people along the way.

As the boy grew older, and correspondingly more curious, this deception became more elaborate, with whole perfect towns being set up along his travel routes, where there existed no ill, old, malformed, or poor people to trouble the boy’s mind.

Eventually, this intricate illusion of earthly perfection was exposed and, upon realizing that there was suffering in the world, adult Prince Siddhartha abandoned his family and his kingdom to indeed become that foretold penniless, wandering beggar ... the same penniless, wandering holy man who would one day find enlightenment and world acclaim as the Buddha.

While Buddhists worldwide take this 2,500-year-old tale as gospel, others, especially Westerners, are more inclined to view it as a metaphor; a young, naïve prince caught up in an illusion from which he must eventually free himself is a timeless metaphor for all our lives.

Times change. Latitudes change. Attitudes seldom do.

Farther west, closer to our own time, comes a similar story of deception out of Russia—that land forever precariously balanced, one foot treading West, the other foot firmly mired in the East.

It seems eighteenth century Russian rogue Gregory Potemkin used a similar ploy to fool his mistress Catherine the Great, then empress of Russia.

In 1783, Catherine decided to test her boy toy Potemkin’s sincerity and ingenuity by putting him in charge of building up a blighted area in her newly annexed Crimea region.

Thereafter, each time Potemkin returned to Moscow’s royal court, he brought glowing reports of how he was indeed improving the area, of how the peasants were all happy and productive.

Delighted with her beau’s reports, in 1787 Catherine decided to visit the area personally.

Traveling by ship down the Dnieper, as Catherine gazed at either shore she saw only brightly colored houses and farms sporting lush, bountiful gardens and healthy-looking cattle. Everywhere she looked new buildings were being built by smiling workmen, fields tended by smiling peasants.

Catherine was overjoyed and rewarded Potemkin lavishly.

Not until much later was it discovered that it had all been an elaborately staged play directed by Potemkin!

The brightly painted houses lining the shore were all false fronts, shells hiding decrepit hovels. The healthy cattle had been shipped in from far away, replacing the area’s own diseased livestock. Even the well-fed and smiling peasants were professional entertainers paid by Potemkin to perform in one village along Catherine’s route, before quickly changing costumes to hurry along to the next village.

Still closer to our own time, during World War II the allies built entire fake military bases replete with wooden planes and even inflatable tanks and cannon that successfully fooled Axis spies.

Consider: If it’s possible for such determined masters of deception to successfully deceive professionally trained observers by faking whole towns and military bases, how much easier would it be for a con man or cult leader to stage mini-dramas from behind a pulpit, a political podium, or even on our own front porch, that would successfully catch us up in confusion and illusion—confusion and illusion we would gladly pay—be it in cash or in flesh—to escape from?

We need not journey to the East to find such scoundrels. When it comes to rascals, rogues, and ruthless mind-manipulators, shameless seducers, charlatans, and sure things, neither East nor West can dare claim monopoly.

There is no single land, no solitary people no matter how poor, that cannot still boast a plentitude of home-grown pirates and opportunists willing to peddle promises and prosperity phantasms to their hungry fellows.

In this respect, Asia can indeed boast of riches!

Thus, the Westerners hand would do well to watch what the Eastern hand does!

Watch and learn.

We study to grow strong. We study to stay strong. We study to discover the source of our enemy’s strength ... and to take that strength from him.

—Joshua Only

2

Seduction and Strategy: The Two-Headed Coin

Seduction is, of course, the act of seducing.

Both the definition—and the mission!—of seduction is to be found in its root, the verb to seduce, from the Old French, by way of the medieval Latin word seducere, meaning to lead astray.

Thumbing through the American Heritage College Dictionary (third edition) we find several definitions for seduce:

• To attract

• To win over

• To entice or beguile into a desired state or position

• To lead away from accepted principles, or proper conduct

• To induce to engage in sex

Your goal in mastering the art of seduction may be one or all of these—that’s your business.

Our business is teaching you how to do it better!

First, start by realizing that seduction and strategy go hand in hand. Some noted authorities on the subject argue they’re even one and the same.

So, from now on, when you see the word seduction think strategy.

Likewise, when reading respected treatises by Sun Tzu, Musashi, Machiavelli, and others on military and political strategy, ask yourself "How can I apply these tactics and techniques to improving my own arts of seduction?"

Here at the Black Science Institute³ we’re all about graduating with a dual (or is that duel?) major in both Appreciation and Application.

It’s not enough for we would-be Mind-wizards to only read and intellectually appreciate Sun Tzu, Musashi, and Machiavelli.

The key is learning the application of that appreciation.

In other words, we need to learn how to take the great seduction lessons in history, classic acts of seduction, and find practical—and profitable!—uses for them in our own lives. Thus, while an abstract appreciation is a good place to start, concrete application is the goal.

For example, if you already have what you consider to be adequate one-on-one seduction skills (somewhere between successfully picking up that half-drunk barfly and successfully selling that pre-owned SUV), odds are you’re still literally selling yourself short if you fail to realize how your one-on-one skills of seduction (strategy) can be applied on a grander scale—from the barroom to the bedroom to the boardroom to the battlefield.

Don’t sell yourself short, because, in the end, that’s exactly what seduction and strategy are all about—selling yourself, getting your lover, customer, opponent, or blood enemy to buy into what you’re selling.

Here’s the secret: those same seduction skills you use to get into that barfly’s pants are the same seduction skills that will land you the job of your dreams—the higher position and recognition in life you deserve.

The ancient Hindus understood this; that’s why they wrote the Kama Sutra. At first glance, most Westerners see the Kama Sutra as only a titillating sex manual (primarily because most Western translations of the book concentrate on filling their pages with voyeuristic photos of naked couples cavorting and contorting into yogic postures guaranteed to stimulate your sex life!).

What most Westerners fail to realize is this Kama Sutra book of seduction was/is first and foremost a book of strategy designed to help ambitious young Hindu men claw their way up India’s strict socioeconomic ladder by marrying into a well-to-do family, if not into royalty. Thus, the overall lesson of the Kama Sutra is learning to use the principles of one-on-one seduction to achieve so much more than an orgasm. (For more on Kama Sutra Karma, see India section.)

In case your pesky moral qualms have decided to kick in about this point (What took you so long?), assuage any misgivings and/or guilt (and temptation! ) you might have now (There’ll be more later!) about seeking out this kind of forbidden knowledge by assuring yourself that, just because you learn a dangerous skill—like how to totally seduce and dominate another’s mind!—that doesn’t necessarily mean you have to become the next Lex Luthor ... Heh-heh-heh.

Miyamoto Musashi (1584–1645), universally acknowledged as the greatest swordsman who ever lived in Japan, author of A Book of Five Rings⁴ taught his students that the same principles that work for defeating one man can easily be applied to defeating a thousand men:

The way of war is the same if the situation is one against one or ten thousand against ten thousand. This should be examined well, making the mind now large, now small.

Musashi not only meant his students could apply this principle in a thousand one-on-one singular sword duels (Musashi himself fought more than sixty to-the-death duels during his life), he also meant that the same strategy could be applied for maneuvering (seducing) a single opponent into position for delivering the coup de grâce, pulling the enemy this way, pushing the enemy that way—the same principle that can be applied by generals for skillfully maneuvering armies of thousands.

Musashi’s philosophical basis for this principle is very familiar in the East: That by mastering the underlying principles (the essence) of a small skill, we can then apply those same principles on ever-larger playing fields.

(pronounced dough").

is identical with the Chinese Taoist concept of Tao. (More on The Tao of Seduction" in Chapter 4: China.)

In Western metaphysics, this same principle is summed up as

As Above, So Below.

As Within, So Without.

As Above, So Below concept that understanding and mastering smaller skills and principles prepares us for effectively dealing with The Big Picture, universal principles.

As Within, So Without keys us to the fact that the exterior of a thing (or person) can either mask or all too often reveal what’s going on inside a thing or person, and vice versa. Ever heard of body language? What about Freudian slips?

So whether it’s trying to talk your way into some lover’s boudoir, successfully negotiate a corporate merger, or shock-and-awe your way across some other country’s sovereign border, somewhere along the way, seduction will either be the key ... or the crowbar!

The same principles—strategies and tactics—apply whether trying to seduce your way into someone’s pants, into their pocketbook, or into their politics.

In the East, there’s no better symbol for balancing both our mental and physical energies—in order to better focus and direct them—than the yin-yang symbol of Chinese Taoism. (See Figure 1.)

In the end the art of seduction is simply yin-yang, or push-pull.

For example, ever hear someone say, he pushed her into another man’s arms, meaning one lover has become so demanding and/or demeaning as to chase off their lover? This phase is often heard in one-on-one relationships.

Figure 1.

Consider how this failure of seduction can also be applied on a large scale, even on the largest of scales—global politics:

In the early 1960s, the U.S. government rejected Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro’s newly formed government because he had a couple communists in his Cabinet.

Our insistent demands that he remove these communists (as a precondition for the United States formally recognizing his regime) infuriated Castro, literally driving him into another’s arms: the sympathetic embrace of the USSR.

Let’s keep it real! you protest. How is all this ancient history important in my life? ... Hello! Cuban Missile Crisis ring a bell? Brink of World War III, nuclear destruction of every living thing on the planet! sound familiar?

All life on Earth wiped out because some half-assed politicians decided to use the bully stick rather than the seduction carrot!

Might we not have wooed, wined, and dined Castro with all his faults (foul-smelling cigar and all), accepting him as he was, gradually getting to know him better, before slowly—diplomatically—enticing him to change, in subtle ways at first.⁵ (You know, the way your girlfriend/roommate slowly—imperceptibly—changes everything in the apartment over a period of time without you realizing it? Until one day you just happen to notice your prized autographed World Series baseball has been replaced on the mantel by her autographed photo of those irritating women from The View and ... now that you mention it, I haven’t seen Rover’s doggie dish—or Rover—for a few days!

Better seduction than destruction ... although seduction is often the first step to the eventual destruction of your enemy.

By now you should see seduction and strategy as two sides to the same coin—a two-headed coin.

And you never lose when tossing a two-headed coin ... unless you let the other person choose first!

THE ZEN OF SEDUCTION

Nothing whatever is hidden; from of old, all is clear as daylight.

—The Zenrin

February 7, 2008, began the Year of the Rat, the year 4706 on the Asian calendar. (More on using—and abusing!—the secrets of the Chinese zodiac in our section on China.)

Apropos, there is a story told in the East:

One day Elder Rat and his young son were out scurrying about when, suddenly, a large, ravenous cat barred their path. Young Rat cowered behind his father, but Elder Rat stands his ground, locks eyes with the ferocious feline, and loudly barks, Bow-wow! Bow-wow! Startled, the cat immediately runs off. Smiling, Elder Rat tells young Rat, Now you see why I always stress how important it is for you to learn a second language?

In many ways, expanding our individual mental powers—expanding our defensive and offensive seductive arsenal!—is somewhat akin to learning a second language. This is especially true when it comes to wielding the wisdom and wherewithal of ancient, and modern, Asian mind-masters. In other words, learning to think like they think.

The ancient Taoist masters of China had a saying:

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Thus the first step on our journey into the Eastern mysteries of mind-mastery will have us learning an appreciation for and then the application of, both sides of our brain.

You see, it’s a myth that we human beings only use 10 percent of our brains. The truth of the matter is human beings use all their brain all the time. To be more precise, there’s always a certain amount of blood coursing to every part of the brain all the time—other wise the neglected parts of the brain would atrophy—stroke!—and die. (Of course there’s no way of telling whether it’s attention or distraction—ignorance or genius—swimming along in that blood flow!)

As a result, most people only use their brains 10 percent efficiently.

The bad news: That leaves a whopping 90 percent room for improvement. Or is that the good news, since that adds up to a lot of human potential we can tap into?

Successfully tapping into that dormant 90 percent potential—whatever our morals or motivation—begins with our realizing that the human brain is actually two brains in one, a right hemisphere and a left hemisphere.

Each of these hemispheres specializes in looking at the world—processing information—in a different way. These two hemispheres often work at cross-purposes to one another. This is where all your indecision and confusion originates. (And you thought it was just because that third cup of coffee hadn’t kicked in!)

The left hemisphere of your brain is a talker. It enjoys words, it enjoys doing math. It demands sequential, logical thinking. The left hemisphere concentrates on the details, often to the exclusion of all else.

The right hemisphere of your brain is more artistic. It enjoys music, it tends to see the big picture. It is less organized but more creative than the left side. (See Figure 2, page 16.)

Simply put, the left brain is a more no-nonsense, concrete thinker. The right, more speculative, imaginative, and abstract.

This is important because we can often get a clue to how a person processes information—right brain versus left brain dominant—simply by listening to the various words and phrases they use to express themselves. (See Figure 3, page 17.)

Learning to fully listen to a person, determining whether they are left-side (concrete thinker) or right-side (more abstract) brain dominant is one of the first tools we need to add to our seduction arsenal. (We’ll teach you how to listen better in the section called Making More Sense of Your Senses in the section on Sexual Feng-Shui.)

If you are trying to concentrate on creating a piece of art (right-brain activity)—say, a painting—and are constantly being interrupted by an incessant talker (language processed by the left side of your brain), the result can only be frustration and eventual anger.

We need to learn to use the appropriate side of our brain to do the