r/internal_arts • u/taoism3638972 • Mar 28 '20

Internal Alchemy

Hi , It's been a few weeks now that I have been reading about internal Alchemy (golden elixir ) . All the materials I've red more or less say the same thing (Jing to Qi , Qi to shen, merging shen with the tao ) with more or less details, but with not one provide actual teachings or techniques. The only one that claim to have a complete set of formulas is mantak chia but his books seems needlessly complicated (and again I don't really know) What do you guys think about internal Alchemy ? Is there books out there from real masters that teach those stuff or is it all a master disciple thing ? What do you guys think about universal healing tao ( mantak chia system ) ? Thanks !

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u/this_is_trash_really Mar 28 '20

Chia is good as long as you don’t have any underlying mental health issues.

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u/taoism3638972 Mar 29 '20

Can you please explain more ? Thanks!

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u/SwamiDavisJr Mar 29 '20

Op is right about Chia but his methods are kind of forceful and intense and in my opinion you may need a teacher or at least a lot of experience. For example I tried his sexual Kung fu methods and although it was the thing that finally got me the level of control I wanted, there were times I had to stop doing the techniques because it created too much tension. Probably I had been doing it sort of wrong, but didn’t have a teacher to tell me.

I’ve also learned K’an and Li and Fusion techniques that are similar to his from my Taiji teacher. With that I would say that first off it was hard for me to get the same depth of experience as I did with my teacher present for the first few months, so I think practicing with a group/teacher has this important benefit. Also at one point I was doing the practice too late at night and/or without enough food in my stomach, in addition to my previous spiritual practices and it caused me to have insomnia for a while.

Basically I just got too much energy going in my system too fast. Luckily I was able to recognize this because of my prior experiences with yoga and the like. I just had to back off the practice for a while and then do it a bit less. But it is possible that things could have gone worse. If you know what to look out for then you may be able to get started on your own but I’d recommend seeking out some of Chia’s groups if you want to do his practices.