Background
Young, John Ding-E was born on December 27, 1958 in Taipei, Taiwan. Son of Tsen Men and Pei Lan (Liv) Young. came to the United States, 1980. Spouse was Susan Wang. They divorced in 2018. They have one child, Lena Young. Susan Wang is the child of one of the wealthiest business man in Taiwan: Yung-Ching Wang, also the founder of famed Chang Gung Memorial Hospital.
Early Life
Born in Taiwan in 1958, his family moved to Brazil (Sãn Paulo) when he was young. Said to be a gifted and 'genius' child, he was reportedly admitted to medical school at age 13 with the best score in Brazil.
Academic Life
Said to have received a Ph.D. at Le University. He later moved to the US to gain a Ph.D. at Rockfeller University and a double Ph.D. in medicine from Cornell Medical College - all before the age of 25.
Specializing in molecular immunology and cell biology, he has made various contributions to these fields. He has several publications on Nature, The Scientific American, the National Institutes of Health, Cell, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A., and Science.
He is said to be a certified medical doctor and also an immunology scientist.
Academic Career
It is said that he was the former head of the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology and Cell Biology at Rockefeller University in New York City and a former member of advisory committees for the National Cancer Institute in the US. He was also a professor at Rockfeller University during his time as the head of the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology and Cell Biology.
In 1998 he founded a business called "Chang Gung Biotechnology" which focuses upon holistic health. This business also opened a health center named the "Heart Transformation Center" located in Taipei, Taiwan. His business promotes preventative medicine. His goal is to restore health and energy through regular exercise, a nutritional diet and spiritual mindset. Chang Gung Biotechnology sells John Young's many inventions and books, specifically many supplements. The most popular in recent years is the "Huang Mi Ying Liquid Extract", the "Wei Liang Yuan Shu Liquid Extract", alpha & beta water cleaning and energizing balls/ cups, as well as anti-cancer/ obesity supplements derived from mushrooms. Both the aforementioned liquid extracts are said to contain 'trace elements' which Young has claimed to be deficient from the human diet due to the lack of minerals in soil. It can be noted that his scientific philosophy is said to be controversial in the scientific community, as it deviates from both Western and Traditional Chinese medicine.
Spiritual Career
In more recent years he has become a popular spiritual leader, or 'spiritual guru' with a large online presence. Amassing more than 80 thousand followers online through Facebook, YouTube, and an app which he has created, he often promotes many religious ideas, taking inspiration from Catholicism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and other popular mainstream religions. It is said that this spiritual work was done within the capacity of his company's name. In addition, he promotes the notion of healthy living to his followers, by encouraging his students to perform the vortex dance or the spiral dance - a dance which he invented, which he claims to have positive health benefits.
In 2020-2021 he launched a new application for mobile devices. This app, called "All Life" contained numerous podcasts of his spiritual teachings, often intertwined with scientific terminology. He has reportedly spoken about the 'big questions in life', such as "What is the purpose of life?" He claims to be spiritually 'enlightened' or 'awakened' from a young age, attributing his genius to his spirituality. Furthermore, he has reportedly spoken about quantum physics, black holes, Hawking radiation (and his contribution to its discovery), dark matter, dark energy, space-time, different universes, the Morphogenic field theory, reincarnation, karma, heaven & hell, angels, dragons, God, and Buddhas. In recent years, he has sold many online spiritual courses delivered as podcasts where he reportedly records during the night, in a forest surrounded by animals. He claims to be able to communicate to these animals via geometric shapes. He has reportedly spoken about how his meditation serves as his rest, and hence he does not need to sleep more than 4 hours a day.
A popular understanding amongst his followers is that the "greatest homework in this life is awakening. Except for it, any other tasks are secondary. It is the highest priority, and it [should be on] your mind from morning till night."
His app allowed his followers to listen to his podcasts 24 hours a day, everyday in the hopes of attaining spiritual enlightenment. A recent addition to this app was educational exercise videos which encouraged his followers to perform these exercises.
His audience largely consists of Mandarin-speaking Taiwanese, or people of the Han ethnicity. He claims that it was the universes' will to prompt him to start preaching in Chinese, despite Chinese being his 'worse' language. He has published many books about spirituality, which he has reportedly claimed to have spoken in audio before his assistant transcribed these audios into these books. He also has written books about his form of yoga/ exercise which he claims has many health benefits, such as structural adjustment of the skeletal system.
His most popular recent books are:
- 沒有路的路, The Road without a Way, published in 2021
- 全部的你, The Totality of You, published in 2017
- 唯識的每日靜心, Daily Meditation, published in 2020
- 不費力的自我結構調整, The Effortless Structural Adjustment of the Body, published in 2019
- 感恩身體的功課, Be Grateful for the Homework of the Body, published in 2020
- 結構調整, Structural Adjustment, published in 2018
- 螺旋舞, Spiral Dance, published in 2016
- 真原醫運動新觀念, The New Concept of Zhenyuan Medical Movement, published in 2008
- 插對頭, Plugged, published in 2018
- 十字路口, Crossroads, published in 2018
- 定, Samadhi, published in 2017
- 落在地球, Earthbound, published in 2017
- 集體的失憶, Collective Amnesia, published in 2017
- 我是誰, Who Am I, published in 2017
- 必要的創傷, Necessary Trauma, published in 2020
- 唯識：新的意識科學, Consciousness-Only: A New Science of Consciousness, published in 2020
- 頭腦的東西：一個真實的新科學, Mind-stuff: A New Science of Reality, published in 2019
- 清醒地睡, Conscious Sleeping, published in 2019
- 不合理的快樂, Unreasonably Happy: The Joy of Being, published in 2017
- 好睡, Sleep Well, published in 2019
- 時間的陷阱, Trapped in Time, published in 2018
- 我：弄錯身分的個案, The I-Entity: A Case of Mistaken Identity, published in 2019
- 豐盛, Abundance, published in 2019
- 靜坐的科學、醫學與心靈之旅：21世紀最實用的身心轉化指南, The Science, Medicine, and Spiritual Journey of Meditation: The Most Practical Guide to the Transformation of Body and Mind in the 21st Century, published in 2014
- 神聖的你, The Sacred You, published in 2017
