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Magic Numbers, Planetary Tones and the Body: The Evolution of Daoist Inner Alchemy into Modern Sacred Science
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@MISC{Winn_magicnumbers,,
author = {Michael Winn},
title = {Magic Numbers, Planetary Tones and the Body: The Evolution of Daoist Inner Alchemy into Modern Sacred Science},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
This paper was inspired by personal practice of the Daoist hermit One Cloud’s Seven Inner Alchemy Formulas for Immortality. In the first three formulas, an energy body is developed and within it the lesser and greater elixir (dan) is cultivated, Sound is an essential tool in this process, beginning with the Six Healing Sounds which are gradually interiorized in Fusion of the Five Elements. A loud thunderbolt is sometimes heard at the first moment of seeding of the cauldron with inner male and female body spirits. One Cloud’s fourth formula, the Greatest Enlightenment of Water and Fire (kan & li), focuses on the relationship between the adept’s inner heart, the five planets, and the sun. Its purpose is to “educate ” the immortal child growing within the adept that the soul and its astrological influences is not fixed by the natal chart, but is rather a changing cosmic symphony. In 1997 I had the meditative experience of hearing the planets “sing ” to me in very distinct, silently heard tones. I later found these tones to be repeatable and transmittable to students. They also proved very useful in qigong therapy for dissolving clients ’ deep soul issues and their various diseases. In One Cloud’s fifth and sixth formulas the adept learns to listen to and communicate with the stellar and Later Heaven-Early Heaven symphony of form and formless consciousness. All seven
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modern sacred science planetary tone daoist inner alchemy magic number fourth formula first moment seven inner alchemy formula later heaven-early heaven symphony qigong therapy personal practice inner male greatest enlightenment various disease five element client deep soul issue loud thunderbolt six healing sound female body spirit essential tool meditative experience astrological influence cloud fifth daoist hermit adept inner heart energy body formless consciousness natal chart sixth formula cosmic symphony kan li immortal child
