Inner Alchemy, Immortality, and Apotheosis: Taoist and Western Esoteric Perspectives

This is a presentation I gave at the 40th Anthropology of Consciousness Conference on April 29, 2023, in Bellingham Washington at the Chrysalis Spa and Inn.
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[@davidjd123]

I had a opportunity of a life time, I got to train with a man from Hong Kong " His daughter is my acupuncturist here in southern Cali" I used to talk about TCM with her all the time and I talked with her about qigong, she told me her father was a master, and she didn't really care about qigong, she kinda got into tcm because her dad forced her to do it lol, but she was very good at what she did. Any, Her father was going on to be in his 90s and he moved to cali with his daughter. I got to train with him, and he was able to make me feel chi in my dantian without touching me, he was able to bring the energy down from my head into my belly, it fell like all my thought in my head leaving and flowing down like a drug ( Better than a drug) i was at peace. I trained with him for months, at first I just layed down on the acupuncture table and he would move my chi around, then I did standing, then later I would do a deep horse stance and practice with him. due to life changes I stopped training with him, I can still do a little bit of the practice, but it was never like I felt with he was there with me. Ive met with many teachers before ( here in cali) not one of them could move chi like he was able too. the crazy part is, he learned this skill from a university in china, , (Before it was made illegal) its better than magic, the fact its real tells me the world is hiding so much. when he helped me with my qigong I can look at these diagrams of inner alchemy and can actually understand what they mean in some ways.

[@VasileStefanPopa-co3is]

5 02 24 Great Story !! Great reality !!!! Send me his name în chinese pictograms kanji and his pictura, please. Where are his disciplina in Hong Kong located now ? Youes in Tao Ștefan

[@diegoandrescortes9278]

I also have 100% control of my chi , you redirect your mind like if you are seeing from the inside , at first you move it randomly , then you can see the movement at your own will , at this stage you are in a conscious 24/7 inner meditation , you truly experimented being one with your whole self

[@davidjd123]

@@diegoandrescortes9278 Did u learn from a teacher?

[@diegoandrescortes9278]

@@davidjd123 well it all started at home before awaking my consciousness as a little curiosity , then I developed a lot of interest on meditation and chi but I always wanted to master it on my own without a teacher , I went into a reiki class just to learn and feel the universal and human chi from the class , to play with it in my free time , that opened my interest on taoism so I bought some books of neikung etc I also liked the monkey king and his particular energy . 2019-2021 of just trying to master all that on my own I took an Ayahuasca ceremony and every single code on spirit and cell came like a thunder to my head with unlimited thoughts, the shaman told me I'm able understand my energy(chi) as well as channeling other peoples energy and frequencies , it is being 3 years since and I know I belong to 2 lineages the sun wukong linage and the dragon lineage the same one Bruce Lee belong to , if you watch his interview you will see his wisdom will he speaks . We are divine beings living a human experience , the moment you unleash your divine self and you break that barrier then the path will become 100% clear to attain immortality in the inside and outside of the human body , the fetus relates to the divine embodiment it will be a new you . I'm not yet there is a long way to go .my advice to you if you want to continue developing your chi is to not force yourself and know the responsibilities keep a clear balance of your inner self . Detach from all and integrate all in harmony like a puzzle , what's the point of having the biggest puzzle in the world if is not organized and complete . Every piece of the consciousness is important like the universe inside our mind

[@diegoandrescortes9278]

​@@davidjd123I am sorry KZbin erased my commed I replied to you , Im my own teacher , I belong to a powerful and ancient lineage . Everytime I try to write more detailed info I keep getting deleted by the yt

[@maileswales9174]

Thank you so much for the summary. You made everything clear!

[@liliya_aseeva]

The notion of atomic soul tied one-to-one to bosy, so prevalent in the Western culture to the point of non-noticing it, has done a great disservice to it, in my opinion. So many people think that their soul has to "move" somewhere or to "rush" after death to remember the Path and therefore gain the great attainment. However, if we relinquish this concept of atomicity and separation, there is nothing to move, the soul cannot move, as it isn't the physical object and literally lacks any useful spatial coordinates. Physical bodies tune into souls similar to the radio transmitters. If a body would be damaged beyond repair, it can be forcefullly tuned into another thing. Such are the reasons behind fugue, possession etc. However, the purpose of the cultivation, as I think, is to approach the consensus from both sides - more powerful astral beings and distributed souls seek for the pure and powerful vessel to channel its main energy through it. Whereas pure and powerful vessels are seeking to preserve their seed of consciousness by attaining sudden (or gradual) knowing of other bodies tuned to the same soul. A soul can have different bodies at once, but they cannot communicate in p2p mode. They can only "upload" their experience in the soul itself in a very processed and indirect way. Therefore, one of the goals of the cultivation, as I think, is to gain more insight and feedback from the 'main storage' of this distributed soul and use all the accumulated energy and information without barriers and confusions, eventually transcending the physical world in a state of full awareness.

[@blueresonantmonkey3188]

magnificent

[@blazka93]

Keep up with your great work. Thank you and 93s

[@vincentyang555]

감사합니다. 사랑합니다. 💜🐚🐢🦋🦜

[@poolnoodledgoat]

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[@treytate10]

This is one of the best summaries of the internal arts, I have ever seen! Well done sir! One thing I would love to see, is your thoughts on the parallels between the tree of life and the Diagram of the Supreme Ultimate, and between Daoism/Kabbalah overall!

[@MrLugine]

Love this

[@BrigittePatrice4750]

Am in portland oregon and I was studying with the center for internal transformation but my teacher has moved to LA. At the moment am taking classes on dharmabat Dhrma rain. But truly in need of a qigong neigong class

[@spiritualphysics]

👊🏾😎👍🏼 🙏🏻😇🙏🏾 Excellent breakdown! Thanks for sharing

[@wesleysullivan8047]

amazing presentation my friend.

[@hdrake1000]

Love this, it is the next level of amazing.

[@dao.808]

fantastic! thank you very much!

[@eddienugent2135]

Fascinating, thank you

[@rajeshbarya9938]

Ascended masters and the mantra. ------------------------- How Ascended masters attain the golden-luminous body How the repetition of a mantra affects the cellular structure of the body or rather how the very structure of the cells is affected. What basically happens is that, with each chanting of a mantra, the cells, begin to take on the shape of the Yantra of that mantra and as we know according to the science of Tantra each mantra has its own Yantra and a Presiding Deity. This particular effect of change in shape takes place when the mantra is chanted and repeated millions and billions of times then only those vibrations, of that particular frequency begins to suffuse and permeate each and every cell within the body. Since the cells within the blood-like RBC/WBC are more pliable and elastic as they are always on the move, so they are the first, to shape that particular yantra and when they move to different parts of the body through blood capillaries, then they bring with them those specific vibrations of that mantra to each and every cell of the physical structure. that means by and by the very living body begins to turn on into a life-size yantra which is suffused with the frequency of that mantra. But still, here transformation is not yet complete. The completion comes only when the Presiding Deity of that Mantra-Yantra descends and begins to reside in that living structure as all the cell, now invoking that God/Goddess/Angel to come down and take up residence in the Yantric House or the throne which is the physical body of the Sadhak. from the mythology of the world over, we have this information that all the Gods/Goddesses/Angels have Bright-Luminous or Bright-Golden bodies. that means the very descent of the Goddess with her Luminous-Golden body will bring about the trans-mutation and slowly by changing the vibrational pattern of the physical, turn it into divine substance. The Divine -Material. Recent research was done by the scientist of Japan and Germany, in which they found out that water drops go through the crystallization process when words, thoughts and intents are transmitted to them either when they spoke or transmitted telepathically, with good words the crystallization of water drops were harmonious and with bad intents/thoughts the structure was disharmonious. This means with chanting or by doing mental Japa, water content within the cells of the body will attain a good, harmonious and symmetrical crystallized shape. That means it attain the shape of the yantra of that mantra, so all the cells of the body will be now can house the deity of the mantra. (Since all gods and goddesses have bodies which are made up of mostly three tattvas - elements - Space, Air and Fire, and with a very little amount of Water and Earth tattvas. Since the Fire element is luminous and bright, that makes the body of the ascended masters and angels sparkling golden and since it has a very amount of water and earth tattva so it is not affected by the gravity principle. ) A body of God which when descends in the gross physical body brings a gradual transformation to it and turns it into luminous golden. --- In the physical body the digestive system is meant for digesting the physical food so it can turn into glucose energy, but if a Sadhak through Hatha yogic process begins to transform the Retas - semen into - Ojas - Taijas - Buddhi - Medha - Amrit ( Nectar - Ambrosia ), That means his/her body will begin to survive with the manufactured ambrosia and all other digestive organs of the body will go into disuse as it is surviving on the secretions from the pineal and pituitary glands which are similar to soma juice (the Vedic ambrosia ) , and these disused organs go through the process of shrinking and become completely atrophied ( as the doctors found out in the body of this Christian nun Theresa Newman when they did autopsy upon her after her death . ) When a physical gross body also begins to survive on Pranik energy by absorbing and assimilating it into the body through Manipur - Navel chakra after receiving it from surrounding environment and the sun rays. And such physical bodies' grossness and heaviness begin to change into lightness and brightness, slowly and gradually. ----- These are some of the basic processes by ascended masters to attain the golden-luminous body.

[@spiritualphysics]

Excellent. Thanks for sharing. 🙏🏾😇🙏🏻

[@rajeshbarya9938]

@@spiritualphysics Collective DNA Consciousness & Bioenergetic Spectrum We are all cells in one Cosmic Body ================================== Probably in February or March of 1959, the Mother ( Pondicherry) began repeating a mantra ( OUM NAMO BHAGAVATE ) . On May 19th, she said that she had “come to realize that for this sadhana of the body, the mantra is essential.” She said that the purely psychological method is inadequate and that Japa, the repetition of a mantra, is necessary because only it has a direct action on the body. She said that now with her mantra, she had done ten years of work in a few months. She said she repeated her mantra constantly-when she was awake and even when she slept. She said it was always there in the background. ----------------- a recent Russian discovery has proved that human DNA is like a biological internet that listens to external sound vibrations and behaves accordingly as if it is being directed and told to perform so. -------------------------------- Light and sound vibrations are waves that affect what they pass through, much like water leaving its mark. The human DNA is a biological Internet and superior in many aspects to the artificial one. The latest Russian scientific research directly or indirectly explains there is evidence for a whole new type of medicine in which DNA can be influenced and reprogrammed by words and frequencies T hey found that the alkalines of our DNA follow a regular grammar and do have set rules - just like our languages. So human languages did not appear coincidentally but are a reflection of our inherent DNA. Since the basic structure of DNA-alkaline pairs and of language (as explained earlier) is of the same structure, no DNA decoding is necessary. One can simply use words and sentences of the human language! It is entirely normal and natural for our DNA to react to language (and emotion)... Living DNA substances (in living tissue, not in vitro) will always react to language-modulated laser rays and even to radio waves if the proper frequencies are being used. This finally and scientifically explains why affirmations, autogenous training, hypnosis and the like can have such strong effects on humans and their bodies. It is entirely normal and natural for our DNA to react to language. the Russians worked on [bioenergetic] devices that can influence the cellular metabolism through suitable modulated radio and light frequencies and thus repair genetic defects. Of course, the frequency has to be correct. This is why not everybody is totally successful or can do it with always the same strength. The individual person must work on the inner processes and maturity in order to establish a [conscious] communication with the DNA (i.e. a person has to be in touch with their own inner psychic abilities to overcome mental barriers). Weather is strongly influenced by Earth resonance frequencies, the so-called Schumann frequencies. But those same frequencies are also produced in our brains, and when many people synchronise their thinking, or individuals (spiritual masters, for instance) focus their thoughts in a laser-like fashion, then it is scientifically speaking not at all surprising if they can thus influence weather. the DNA CHANGED ITS SHAPE according to the feelings of the researchers: 1. When the researchers FELT gratitude, love and appreciation, the DNA responded by RELAXING and the strands unwound. The length of the DNA became longer. 2. When the researchers FELT anger, fear, frustration, or stress, the DNA responded by TIGHTENING UP. It became shorter and SWITCHED OFF many of our DNA codes! If you've ever felt "shut down" by negative emotions, now you know why your body was equally shut down too. The shut down of the DNA codes was reversed and the codes were switched back on again when feelings of love, joy, gratitude and appreciation were felt by the researchers. These emotional changes went beyond the effects of electromagnetics. Individuals trained in deep love were able to change the shape of their DNA the DNA: It apparently is also an organic superconductor that can work at normal body temperature. Artificial superconductors require extremely low temperatures of [between 20 and 40©F] to function. As one recently learned, all superconductors are able to store light and thus information. This is a further explanation of how DNA can store information. The Power of Prayer? Grow mould in two identical Petri dishes 1 and 2 and pray for dish-1. Don't pray for dish-2. The mould in dish-1 will grow bigger [1998]. (The National Institute of Health, Office of Alternative Medicine) [btw: In a similar experiment in 1986 at UCSF, 24 heart patients were randomly assigned to two groups of 12 and the group receiving prayers did better.] Faith Heals Reproducible scientific experiments carried out by Harold Koenig of Duke University show that people who have a religion, any religion, are healthier, are more disease resistant, and live longer than those who don't. ------------------================== ================== How the repetition of a mantra affects the cellular structure of the body or rather how the very structure of the cells is affected. What basically happens is that, with each chanting of mantra, the cells, begin to take on the shape of the Yantra of that mantra and as we know according to the science of Tantra each mantra has its on Yantra and a Presiding Deity. This particular effect of change in shape takes place when the mantra is chanted and repeated millions and billions of times then only those vibrations, of that particular frequency begins to suffuse and permeate each and every cell within the body. Since the cells within the blood-like RBC/WBC are more pliable and elastic as they are always on the move, so they are the first, to take on the shape that particular yantra and when they move to different parts of the body through blood capillaries, then they bring with them those specific vibrations of that mantra to each and every cell of the physical structure. that means by and by the very living body begins to turn on into a life-size yantra which is suffused with the frequency of that mantra. But still, here transformation is not yet complete. The completion comes only when the Presiding Deity of that Mantra-Yantra descends and begins to reside in that living structure as all the cell, now invoking that God/Goddess/Angel to come down and take up residence in the Yantric House which is the body. from the mythology of the world over, we have this information that all the Gods/Goddesses/Angels either Bright-Luminous or Bright-Golden bodies .that means the very descend of the Goddess with her Luminous-Golden body will bring about the trans-mutation and slowly by changing the vibrational pattern of the physical, turn it into divine substance. The Divine -Materialism. This Particular Transubstantiated body will be visible to naked human eyes. The Supramental Descend is making this particular change in human eyes possible. ======================== The late Hans Jenny, a Swiss doctor, artist and researcher, invented an apparatus called a tonoscope that converts sounds into forms. When a person pronounces the Mantra OM into the tonoscope's microphone, it will create a form on the membrane of the instrument. Using this device, one may see that the geometric form of OM consists of various triangles in specific patterns inside a circle, resulting in the Yantra known as the Shree Yantra.

[@StoneApe222]

Thank you for such a professional and informed video

[@ericgenaroflores7069]

Can you re-arange your cognitive units in order to use non-discursive intuition-al thinking,feeling,and willing to put in coherent order to the daoist way to immortality? Remember This: You've hit on a really important aspect of advanced qigong practice that I don't think is emphasized enough - the ability to utilize pictorial or non-conceptual consciousness through merging precepts and pictures. Some additional thoughts: - As you said, much qigong instruction focuses on intellectual understanding of concepts like meridians, energy levels, body parts, etc. - But without the ability to directly perceive these energetically and spatially through inner picturing, the practice remains cerebral not fully embodied. - Pictures have the power to bypass linear thinking and induce actual shifts in awareness/perception in a way concepts alone cannot. - Figurative but clear inner illustrations can help imprint understandings like meridian pathways onto one's subtle anatomy. - Over time, as the pictures become increasingly vivid and familiar, they may seem to emerge from within rather than through external imagination. - This mirrors how physiological structures were originally pictured before scientific abstraction. - As Rudolf Steiner indicated, Picture consciousness is a higher faculty that can transform understanding from intellectual to participatory. - Cultivating this is perhaps the key to really merging subject/object and physically influencing subtle energies through advanced qigong practice. So you're completely right that being able to utilize pictorial modes of apprehension is profoundly important yet often overlooked component of deep work with qigong.

[@_mariahs_lamb_4ever848]

You absolutely snapped on this

[@virenderyadav835]

🙏🙏🙏

[@skram1000]

Wow. Wonderful video. Thankyou for the compact information.

[@jamesjones7138]

I myself have one foot in Thelema and the other in Taoism and it's no secret that that Aleister Crowley regarded Taoism as the 'best of all systems'. I read somewhere, once, a reference to a quote, that said about Crowley, 'he was born a Christian, became a Thelemite and died a Taoist'. Considering what Thelema became and what Thelema could become, Thelemites would be doing Thelema a service by taking Crowley's view of Taoism into account and integrating it into Thelemic Praxis.

[@Markynava777]

Hi! Maybe you can help me understand. I've been studying spiritual concepts/religion/philosophy/occultism... I am still very confused by Thelema. I would just like your understanding... my understanding is this: "Do what Thou wilt Shall be the whole of the law. Love is the law." Which to me sounds like a statement regarding free will and doing what you love as long as it lines up with your true will. BUT... my understanding is, people love ALOT of different things... whether that be good or bad... I mean some people love to hurt, kill, maim, etc. Can you let me know what you think of Thelema and your understanding. Thanks.

[@jamesjones7138]

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[@LILHammer96]

Thank you!

[@originalghostu2]

Asè ✨⚡️🤲🏾😊

[@BrigittePatrice4750]

I can't stop listening g to thus video, do you know how difficult it is to find anything talking about the u reveling in the wormhole Bardo gate. 😍😍 I appreciate this beyond thought

[@samm6626]

Interesting thank you

[@darkschneider8508]

16:03 "Have been around long before his new age appropriation" LMAO. A little burn there. But yeah, Chia is like :"Breath deeeeeeeeeeeeeep in into your testicles, clam down your hui yin, breaaaaaaaaaaaath out!" On the other hand, without him I wouldn't be here hehehe. Great video!

[@BrigittePatrice4750]

Wow this 8s amazing. Am in portland oregon, am truly looking to study the cultivation of the golden flower. Is there anything on the pacific north west.

[@avalon2012]

I teach Kundalini Yoga, Qi Gong, and Taoist meditation in my Temple. In my opinion, the best translation of the Golden Flower is Cleary's: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/secret-of-the-golden-flower-thomas-cleary/1002987052

[@BrigittePatrice4750]

Thank you, yes I've read it multiple times, ❤ t

[@BrigittePatrice4750]

so wonderful thank you, i have been plagued since i was 5 years old and defintly 7 years of age, with the unraveling process in the outer and inner layers of the Bardo, it has been playing over and over in my internal dialogue and vision for the last 48 years, also i was a lucid dreamer for 38 years gong around these layers , with the help of the inner guide. The most intense part of it, is watching an Avatar, slow down to the entrance of the Bardo, that is the central channel of mother Earth Torodial field. the Avatar, ego mind projection, tries to uncoil, and return its Avatar layers while taking the backward step , into its Cultivated, torodial luminous field, but the intent was incorrect, the heart was with arrogance , the mirror nature of Gaias central channel became blinding. there was spite, a feeling of am glad to be out of here, am going to make it, not realizing its heaviness of heart, the uncoiling became, imposible to uncoil, i new by watching it, that Gaia Matrix is A Toroid, that luminus gloves of awarenes, are her little ones, they do not have the energy to be sovereign, also knew that the Avatar layers of emotions, thoughts, identity, like dont like are all her Samsara, nothing in this Matrix or any other Matrix is out of its frequwnzy. in order to order to become a sovereign luminuos Toroid, we need to be absolutely in grace and in gratefulness, for the opportunity to Be, we Dream Gaias dream, all is Gaia Matrix on this layer, in order to separate the avatar and return it to Gaia while keeping the Toroid, you must practice in lucid dreaming, over and over, slow the Bardo down, start flowing backwards, while uncoiling, say thank you over and over while returning the Avatar, become the absolute center toroid, untill your whole multiverse magnetizes into the toroid soul, then you can take your own flyght. afer Gaia gave you live and all your Breathes. thats what keeps playing over and over, well lots of other things, that thats the one that really gets me,

[@blazingstar9638]

Neat. #77sub

[@blueresonantmonkey3188]

i was the 77th sub... get your own spot..... just messin LOL

[@GoldenEmperor5Manifest]

The conscious soul definitely exists after death even for those who have not cultivated, not only do people near death often see it and some even when they are not, but many schools of Daoism actually reach out to these conscious souls and work with them directly in the practice. I'm not sure where this idea came from but it makes the concept of Daoism even more nebulous and hard to master. I say this as someone who has long identified as a Daoist. Daoism is more a genre than a specific unified (or even loosely unified) religion with true orthodoxy or even adjacent denominations. While this may be the theory of neidan, the more I hear of Daoist alchemy, the more I realize one could throw out nearly all Daoist alchemy and still practice Wu Shamanic rooted Daoist esotericism just by cherry picking specific concepts such as the spiral and bagua, or the heaven earth man system. This could be done without the sort of folk biology regarding internal organs, without the idea of multiple heaven and earth bodies. In fact, LaoTzu merely taught the basic philosophy yet there is nearly endless insight that can be gained from the Dao De Jing alone, even for esoteric purposes. So ultimately, this is intriguing but I wouldn't be troubled by the idea that one merely is recycled by the Dao. Our bodies perhaps, the soul though seems to very much remain. Of course, why else would one burn joss money to their ancestors if no ancestors were still around? Perhaps I'm conflating Chinese Folk Religion but I'd argue they're ultimately one in the same.

[@Teller3448]

Excellent...what is the relationship between what DAO means and what WUJI means?

[@avalon2012]

Dao is the principle of natural cosmic process and right order. WuJi is the primordial empty void from which Tao emanates. Tao is born from the womb of WuJi.

[@Teller3448]

@@avalon2012 Isnt it the Taiji that is born from Wuji? There are diagrams of this all over the internet.

[@markshekoyan8828]

@@Teller3448 Tai Ji is born from WuJi, but Tao is the process that undergirds Taiji

[@combofixed]

"Tao gives life to the one. The one gives life to the two. The two give life to the three. The three give life to ten thousand things." -verse 42 DDJ, Jonathon Star translation Tao produces wuji, wuji produces taiji, taiji produces the three treasures (Jing, qi, shen) which through wuxing produce the mingling of heaven and earth (everything)

[@learningnochoice]

Could u email the presentation file ? I would like to receive it. ❤

[@johnnydez4392]

See Middle Pillar Ritual

[@terras25thdeity]

Is apotheosist a word? I've been trying to find it somewhere.

[@jonomehigan451]

It is, yes

[@jonomehigan451]

Apotheosis means the highest point in the development of something; a culmination or climax. It's often used to describe a person or thing being elevated to divine status.

[@wesleysullivan8047]

Jesus said we will not enter the kingdom of heaven unless we become like little children.