Soul Masters: Dr. Guo & Dr. Sha Hot

This film is a documentary about Dr Guo, a Chinese master healer and his disciple, Dr. Sha, who brings his healing techniques to the Western world. Dr. Guo seems to have an extraordinary gift that he has intuitively and systematically developed over the years to cure the incurable, using a combination of energy work, massage, herbal remedies, and whole living. Thousands of people from all over the world go to his clinic, the Xiuyang Institute, many of them as a last resort. The clinic is more like a convalescent center where people can stay for long periods while healing from their illness; many are cancer patients. The people who work in the clinic also live there as a community, including Dr. Guo, his wife and their five daughters, and their spouses; their work is not just a living, it is a spiritual path.

That’s the linear synopsis of this film. Spiritually, Soul Masters is a documentary of hope. Hope for anyone seeking relief from their physical dis-ease, but even more so, hope for anyone to learn to tap into our innate healing capacities and ease suffering in our families and communities. As he says, and as we know, the body heals and restores itself. Dr. Guo’s doctoring emphasizes over and again that his desire to heal comes from the heart: “Everything we do is based on love,” he says. His vision and intention is to heal and to teach others how to heal “heart to heart,” and “soul to soul.”

The energy that moves through Dr. Guo is Divine spirit. He explains that when we act on matter, we implicitly act upon the “message” in matter. By altering the message (i.e. energy work) we can bring about change in body and mind. His technique, which is called Body Space Medicine, is based on vibrations (the messages). By regulating the fluids in the body through vibration, illness dissipates and the body’s natural energy circulates and completes the healing process.

A day in the clinic begins with meditation and exercise, and concludes with dance—all part of the healing. I found it fascinating that Dr. Guo begins by examining the patient’s tongue, which he says shows all of the organs, and the coating on the tongue that shows the energy between the organs. He puts a photo of the tongue on his computer and examining it he makes an assessment of the person’s health, then diagnoses an herbal combination remedy that the patient drinks twice a day. He only uses ten herbs and his herbal remedies contain four herbs from those ten. Add in daily massage (unlike we usually think of it) and a few other unconventional treatments, and that is the entire healing—that we can point to and explain. We have to go on faith that the soul healing also occurs; although the number of people who have been “miraculously” cured—transformed, actually— is its own witness.

How refreshing to see not only a humble healer, but a culture that acknowledges the spiritual aspects of being human, our spirit and soul, as readily as we Westerners would refer to our eyes or legs. By the end of the film I was ready to take the next flight to China and devote the rest of my life to his healing teachings. Dr. Sha, as his disciple, teaches the same heart-based self-healing, and has focused his gifts on soul healing—the divine energy that is within every aspect of our body and mind. As he says, “I am a divine servant.” Watch this film and your framework for healing will be delightfully dismantled: your soul will be liberated and your heart moved.