Internal alchemy
Subtitle: self, society, and the quest for immortality
By: edited by Livia Kohn & Robin R. Wang.
Contributors: Kohn, Livia, 1956-; Wang, Robin.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Three Pines Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Magdalena, N.M
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781931483117
Subjects: Alchemy -- Religious aspects -- Taoism; Taoism -- Customs and practices
Other titles: Self, society, and the quest for immortality
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Modes of mutation: restructuring the energy body / Livia Kohn; title: Internal landscapes / Sara Elaine Neswald; title: History and early lineages / Guangbao Zhang; title: The southern school: cultivating mind and inner nature / Xichen Lu; title: Neidan methods for opening the gate of heaven / Stephen Eskildsen; title: Summoning the thunder generals: internal alchemy in the thunder rites / Shinyi Chao; title: Numinous father and holy mother: late-Ming duo-cultivation practice / Xun Liu; title: Female alchemy : an introduction / Elena Valussi; title: To become a female Daoist master: kundao in training / Robin Wang; title: Neidan in America / Michael Winn; title: On being moved: Kundalini and the complete maturation of the spiritual body / Stuart Sovatsky; title: Western parallels: the esoteric teachings of Hermeticism / Althea Northage-Orr.