The Tao of Immortality: The Four Healing Arts and the Nine Levels of Alchemy Book by Mantak Chia

A comprehensive guide to the core practices of the Universal Healing Tao System and the advanced esoteric practices of Inner Alchemy

• Explains each of the nine levels of Inner Alchemy and their more than 240 formulas

• Explores the Four Healing Arts for transformation of the emotional body, physical body, energy body, and spiritual body

• Provides simplified versions of core Universal Healing Tao practices to more easily integrate the system into your daily life

• Shows how these exercises were designed to increase longevity and ensure the survival of consciousness beyond death

Explaining the evolution and core of the Universal Healing Tao system, Master Mantak Chia and William U. Wei offer a condensed approach to the Inner Alchemy practices taught to Master Chia by his first Taoist Master, Yi Eng, more than 60 years ago. Beginning with the basic principles called the Five Enlightenments, the authors explain each of the nine levels of Inner Alchemy and their more than 240 formulas, including simplified versions of the Microcosmic Orbit, the Inner Smile, Sexual Alchemy exercises for men and women, Fusion of the Five Elements practices, Kan and Li Alchemy, the Sealing of the Five Senses, and Star and Galaxy Alchemy. They explore the Four Healing Arts that encompass the nine levels of Inner Alchemy--Living Tao practices for transformation of your emotional body, Chi Nei Tsang practices for transformation of the physical body, Cosmic Healing practices for transformation of the energy body, and Immortal Tao practices for transformation of the spiritual body--all aimed toward the survival of consciousness in a self-aware vessel. They also offer simplified versions of the other core practices, such as Iron Shirt Chi Kung, Bone Marrow Nei Kung, and Wisdom Chi Kung, to help you easily integrate Inner Alchemy and Universal Healing Tao practices into your daily life.

Providing a primer not only on the foundational practices of the Universal Healing Tao System but also a condensed guide to the esoteric practices of Inner Alchemy, Master Chia and William U. Wei show how these exercises were designed to increase longevity, providing you with enough time to master the more advanced spiritual techniques and ensure the survival of consciousness beyond death.

About the Author:

Mantak Chia is also the author of Awaken Healing Energy through the Tao (co-author Michael Winn), Taoist Secrets of Love: Cultivating Male Sexual Energy, Taoist Ways to Transform Stress into Vitality, Chi Self-Massage, Iron Shirt Chi Kung I, Healing Love through the Tao: Cultivating Female Sexual Energy (co-author Maneewan Chia), and Bone Marrow Nei Kung (co-author Maneewan Chia). Master Mantak Chia is the creator of the Healing Tao System and Director of the Healing Tao Center in New York. Since childhood he has been studying the Taoist approach to life as well as other approaches. Born in Thailand to Chinese parents in 1944, he was first taught at age six by Buddhist monks how to sit and "still the mind." While he was in grammar school, he first learned traditional Thai boxing, and was then taught Tai Chi Chuan by Master Lu. When he was a student in Hong Kong, he began his studies of the Taoist way of life with Master Yi Eng, who authorized him to teach and heal. He later studied Taoist Yoga and the Buddhist Palm with Master Meugi in Singapore, and studied the Shao-Lin Method of Internal Power with Master Cheng Yao-Lun, who combined Taoist, Buddhist, and Zen teachings in his system of Thai boxing and Kung Fu. To understand the mechanisms behind healing energy better, Master Chia studied Western medical science and anatmoy for two years. After training a network of teachers in the Healing Tao system, he established the Natural Healing Center in Thailand, before moving to New York to open the Healing Tao Center in 1979. Maneewan Chia was born and raised in Hong Kong, moving with her parents to Thailand where she received a B.S. degree in Medical Technology. Since childhood, she has been very interested in nutrition and Chinese health food cooking. She assists Mantak Chia in teaching classes, including Taoist Five Element Nutrition, and managing the Healing Tao Center.

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