People may learn to live without pain through the healing arts.

After about 18 years of working to create Guru Ve and with the help of NIU staff members, alumnus Anthony Castelluccio said it’s time for people to start healing themselves. The presentation contains audio and visual content about self-healing methods created to assist people and the world they live in. Castelluccio said people who use iPads can access Guru Ve on iTunes.

“It’s the greatest puzzle for atheists ever written,” Castelluccio said.

He worked with NIU teachers to present more than four hours of streamed video and audio of the healing arts for Guru Ve. The presentation includes the origins of yoga, chi gong and kung fu. For Castelluccio, chi gong is the yoga of China with around 1,008 versions that can be learned to connect the body and awareness of self. Chi gong is less primal than yoga, since it simply focuses on sitting and breathing, he said.

Castelluccio’s wife Janet worked to get legal permission to use content for the project, and she worked to edit the presentations with Jason Underwood, an instructional designer for NIU’s Outreach eLearning.

Guru Ve is easy to learn, Castelluccio said. The presentation contains some of the world’s best teachers guiding the audience, he said.

“I’m a sports person, I do what makes me feel good,” Castelluccio said. “There’s no comparison to working your spirit.”

Also included in the presentation is a non-fiction story. The story, Unitary, is about bringing the wisdom of all cultures together, he said.

People are forgetting God, Castelluccio said. He said everything is connected to everything else and in order to improve the world the next generation should not make the same mistakes.