To be a real Taoist or a self-cultivated person, oneself must somehow be initiated or under-go Spiritual Registration or Reporting.

Usually before a person who agreed to be a Taoist or self-cultivated person, the person who lead him in, can be the Master, parent, teacher or some other Spiritual Leaders, will need to ask for an Acceptance Ceremony/Ritual for the person who wanted to become a real Taoist or self-cultivated person.

Once the Ceremony or Ritual is being arranged, the person will need to provide his/her personal particulars to the Person who conducts the Ceremony or Ritual, in-order for the preparation of the Spiritual Document or so-called Petition.

A lot of people get frighten or scare-off by the requesting of providing the particular, this is quite common, but once a person who are willingly to accept the initiation and yet worried about the providing of the particulars, this may somehow caught in contradiction.

Once the Petition is prepared, the Person who lead the Ceremony or Ritual will choose an auspicious date, usually on the 15th Day of Lunar 1st, 7th or 10th Lunar Month (which also known as San Yuan Ri). By going thru the Ceremony or Ritual, Reporting to the Heaven, San Qing aka The Three Pure Ones and Heavenly Master Zhang Dao Ling, the person will be officially accepted as a Taoist or so-called Ju Shi.

If the Ju Shi wanted to step forward to become a Spiritual Leader or Master or Priest, then he/she will needed to go thru another Registration Ceremony or Ritual to request for a Heavenly Officer Post or Spiritual Registration as an Spiritual Officer.

Usually such Ceremony or Ritual will be conducted by the Master of the person or going to the main Holy Place of Taoism in China or Taiwan to get register. Such Registration is called Shou Lu or Zou Zhi (Shou Lu, meaning receiving the authorities from the Heaven or Heavenly Master and Zou Zhi, meaning receiving the title or Spiritual Will for conducting of Rituals/Ceremonies, etc).

Upon the registration, a person will be officially known as a Spiritual Officer who can somehow conduct Rituals or Spiritual Ceremonies or even subduing of any entities, but again, certain set of rules and regulations must be followed and obeyed.

Today, in the Taoist Society (may it be Folks or Main Stream), a lot of Spiritual Leaders/Masters/Priests didn’t really under go such Registrations or Reporting, which actually is a big taboo or forbidden case. Once a person who is not officially accepted by the Heaven, Three Realms, San Qing, Heavenly Master Zhang and the Sect Ancestors, no matter how reputable the person is, he/she will still not be enhanced with 90-100% Spiritual Will or Energies, etc. And so, the people who engaged them for Rituals/Ceremonies might not get whatever they requested for or some of them might get into more troublesome issues after that.

So who shall go thru such a Registration or Reporting?

The recommended group will be, a Must for Taoist Priests, followed by Spiritual Masters, Leaders, Mediums, Assistants of Mediums, Altar Protectors, Spiritual Armies Commanders, Talisman-study disciples, etc.

For Priests, Spiritual Masters and Leaders, without the Registration, they cant communicate with the Heaven or the Spiritual World, only by then, the "Doors" are opened for them and special arrangements for Protectors of Spiritual Skills will be done for them. Special enhancement will also be done on them in-order to use the different Spiritual Objects/Weapons during different occasions, such objects are as Spiritual Whip aka Fa Suo, Da Gui Bang & Tian Peng Chi aka the Rods for subduing Ghosts and Demons, Seals and Wu Lei Ling aka the Five Thunder Commanding Block, etc.

A lot of people thought that, by just joining any Temples or Sintuas and by going thru the help of mediums, a person can used the Spiritual Objects freely, without any obeying of rules and regulations, actually all these are not correct. Only people who are Officially and Spiritually recognized Taoists can used the objects and released the highest percentage of Spiritual Energies without them after registrations, etc.

Same applies to mediums and mediums-assistants. Once they are register, their energies or power will be enhanced and of cause, needed to obey the so-called rules.

Been doing researches and observations on those who practiced Talisman Skills, most of them are not Officially Accepted, even though they claimed that they are being Officially Accepted by the Masters, etc.

Once a Talisman-person is being Officially Accepted by the Real Taoism, the way of their issuing of Talismans and the way they performed the Drawing will be different (now in the market, a lot of mix-and-match Talisman appeared, which will somehow, affect the Correct and Upright Culture or Teaching of Taoism).

Not long ago, saw a posting in of the Multiply Website, claiming that Talisman Skills originated by our San Qing Teaching at 5000 years ago, to be honest, the person is not that well-versed in our Taoism Teaching, cos, our Real Taoist Talisman Skills only being promoted and widely used after our Heavenly Master Zhang created the First Talisman to cure the folks in Late Han Dynasty (abt 2000 years ago) – and this is why, our Zheng Yi Sect is being addressed as Fu Lu Sect, a Sect uses Talismans for Rituals/Ceremonies and assistances to beings.

By going thru that, for those who are well-versed or trained will know that, such a person who do the postings are not well-versed or trained in the knowledge of Real or so-called Main Stream Taoism (this happened in all around Asia too).

Back to the topic on registration.

To conclude, in-order for a person (who are interested in becoming a real Taoist or future Spiritual-person-to-be) to reach the higher standard of using their Spiritual Energies/Power or Promoting of the Culture of Taoism or assisting people-in-need, the person must find the real Sect or real Master to do the registration and the learning of Skills, if not, the person not only does harm to him/herself, but also to those who approached him/her for assistances.

I would really hope to learn MAO SHAN SHU, can you please let me know where can i look for master to learn, Thanks a lot

kindly advise how and when to conduct the registration

The nest Spiritual Registration for the Long Shan Men will take place on the 15th Day of Lunar 1st Month.

Details will be out soon.

Dear Master Jave Wu,

Please include me in the notification for registration. How do I go about it?

some questions i would like to ask,

1. does a taoist need to be chinese literate?

2. any age limit?

3. just anybody/any race may join if they are interested?

4. where exactly can you find someone to register you as a registed taoist?

For one self who are interested in doing Taoist Cultivation, he/she does not need to be chinese or chinese literate, but he/she must try his/her best to learn chinese for his/her future cultivation and understanding of Taoist Culture, Ritual, Ceremony, Rules & Regulations, etc.

No race or age limitation.

Over the World, only a few places can do Spiritual Registration.

Anything, you can email me at javecxwu@gmail.com

i might consider going when i am older. Why only few places can do the Spiritual Registration and does that mean in order to register we will have to join a sect/find a taoist master to perform it?

Yes, in-order to get the registration, you need to seek a master and do training under him, so may take years to do training before one self can be registered, but nowadays, due to commercial issues, anyone can registered at anytime, etc.

i see, so things getting simpler and simpler already... due to modern living