9 formules van One Cloud

Taoist Inner Alchemy is the practical bridge between personal self and your Cosmic
Self.

One Cloud’s Nine Tao Alchemy Formulas

To Cultivate the True Immortal Self
Preparation & Supplemental Practices

Purification, grounding, and centering through various forms of qigong (meditation as

movement).Examples:

• Simple qigong (chi kung) forms to open the dantian,

• Chi Nei Tsang (Deep Organ Massage) to detoxify organs.
• Tai Chi Qigong and other internal martial arts to refine and express outward
chi flow using body movement,
• Cosmic Chi Healing to channel cosmic forces to others.
• Tao Yin (Taoist Yoga) to relax and open up the body.
• Tai Chi for Enlightenment/Primordial Qigong for medical and spiritual health,
centering and easing karmic difficulties.

1st Formula of Inner Alchemy

Lay a Foundation of Love & Balanced Chi Flow

1a. Inner Smile radiates Heart/Soul Presence of our Original Spirit (yuan shen) into
the physical body-mind. This radiates Unconditional Acceptance and Unconditional
Love from our inner heart (soul) as the foundation of all lasting chi cultivation.
Learning how our heart-soul can safely radiate its True Presence allows us to shape
our chi flow and become who we truly are destined to be. It is a practical way to
meditate while engaged in daily life.

Inner Smile cultivates our chi as a deep act of self-love. Yin practice allows to love
our body, its tissues, our organ spirits, and to dissolve past energy patterns (positive
and negative) that unconsciously shape our reality. Yang practice is to radiate a
loving Inner Smile out to our friends, family, community and Nature. Inner Smile is the
simplest and most profound body-centered Tao practice to grow our sense of
harmony. It strengthens our inner virtues (moral compass) and integrates outer life
with inner meditation and delivers true peace to our soul.

1b. Six Healing Sounds and Five Animals Qigong to purify the internal vital organs
and bowels, and circulate chi in the Five Elements Creation Cycle of Nourishment.

1c. Microcosmic Orbit to balance and circulate chi in the Energy Body. It is a dynamic
meditation creating a balanced, yin-yang flow of perpetual golden light chi circling
around the spine and chest. Also known as “small heavenly round” or “embryonic
breathing”, this meditation balances the pre-natal chi (from Heaven) and post-natal
blood (from Earth, body, and ancestors) and stabilizes all yin-yang chi flow in the
meridians.

2nd Formula of Inner Alchemy

Cultivate Harmonious Feelings & Sexual Energy

2a. Iron Shirt 1: Internal Rooting & Bone Breathing to ground the Energy Body.
Grounding is a major challenge for many westerners. Standing postures connect the
skeletal structure to the flow of earth chi. This rooting is essential to managing sexual
and emotional energy and allows one to absorb cosmic chi as one progresses.

2b. Fusion of the Five Elements 1 is about cultivating our original or true feelings,
before they are corrupted by resistance and ego struggle. This is accomplished by
harmonizing the five phases of chi flow (wu xing). Fusion 1 practice transforms
negative emotions into positive, virtuous chi flow. It harmonizes the Five Spirits
(shen), the biological-psychological intelligences of the personal self.

These Five Vital Organ spirits, also known as the “Inner Body Gods”, fuse their
essence (jing) and natural virtue (de) into a pearl of original chi (yuan chi) in the belly
cauldron (lower dantian). This purified chi pearl is then circulated in the 5 Elements
Creation Cycle. When the emotional chi is harmonized, then sexual energy can be
more deeply and safely cultivated.

2c. Healing Love/ Taoist Sexual Secrets: conserves, recharges, harmonizes, and
spiritually guides sexual energy. Taoist medical sexology heals sexual dysfunction,
the bedroom arts harmonize couples love life and guard their health. Women use the
jade egg to strengthen and own the spiritual space of their womb. Women learn to
reduce monthly blood loss with breast massage and Ovarian Breathing.

Men learn to build sexual power by re-circulating internally their semen’s essence
with Testicle Breathing. The conserved sexual energy is guided by both men and
women into the appropriate body center (dantian) or energy channel (microcosmic
orbit, core channel, etc.). Sexual energy, when refined, is the primary fuel for the
alchemical process of accelerating human evolution. It makes the physical body
radiant and stimulates the mental/emotional bodies to be highly creative and positive.

3rd Formula of Inner Alchemy

Balance our 8 Cosmic-Psychic Forces

3a. Iron Shirt 2 (Tendon Power) & Bone Marrow Neigong 3. These practice
strengthen our body’s functional structure by storing long-lasting chi and clean the
bone marrow by charging it with sexual energy to stimulate the production of fresh
blood cells.

3b. Fusion of Five Elements 2 and 3. The pearl activates the yin-yang pulsation of
the eight cosmic forces (I Ching trigram energy) that flow into the Eight Extraordinary
Vessels of the human body. These deep energy channels form the blue print or
matrix of our personal Energy Body, and supplies the twelve regular meridians with
chi.

When these eight psychic energy channels are activated, they collectively open the
Macrocosmic Orbit (or “large heavenly round”) and can heal at a very deep level.
Faster and far more powerful than acupuncture or herbs for healing chronic illness
and ancestral (genetic) issues.

This practice opens deep awareness of chi field beyond the body, hence its
reputation for awakening psychic powers (known as the eight Siddhas in a parallel
Indian tradition). We activate the Nine Cosmic Spirals that allow us to expand our
Energy Body out to the far edge of the Cosmos and receive guidance and renewal
from the universal chi field.

4th Formula of Inner Alchemy

Inner Sexual Alchemy: Heal our Male/Female Soul-Split

4. Lesser Enlightenment of Kan and Lii (Water & Fire), also known as Inner Sexual
Alchemy. This practice presupposes some skill in the Taoist Healing Love sexual
cultivation art of semen retention for men and partial lessening of the menstrual cycle
in women. It involves a shift from horizontal Fusion of the Five Elements (Post-natal
or manifest chi) to vertical axis coupling of Three soul aspects: Fire-Inner Male,
Water-Inner Female, & True Earth-Portal of Self-Creation.

The Kan & Li method of “spiritual self-intercourse” couples primal Fire and Water chi
in the body. This is the first and critical stage of dissolving the personal mind-body
split (and its resulting diseases). We unify all male and female soul fragments in the
lower belly cauldron (dantian- center of gravity). This alchemical internal sex clears
out all our old outer sexual relationship patterns, and creates a feeling of spiritual
pregnancy that can last 9 months. We physically feel a deep body bliss known as the
formation of the “immortal embryo”.

When primal fire and water chi are “steamed” in the belly, it produces Original Chi
that dissolves deep genetic patterns and false yin and yang syndromes in our
personality and body. It opens our Inner Eye at all levels of the body’s core channel,
thus enhancing and our ability to “see” inside our body and matter. A special Black
Pearl meditation allows us to dissolve our shadow side’s Inner Demons, by taking
them on a journey into the pre-natal portal.

5th Formula of Inner Alchemy

Sun–Moon-Earth Alchemy: Complete Our Ancestors

5. Greater Enlightenment of Kan and Li (Water & Fire), also called Sun-Moon
Alchemy. Horizontally we integrate the 5 inner essences of the personal self with the
five directional forces of the planetary self. These are identified as the Five Dragon
Spirits of Earth, a.k.a. the spirits of the North, South, East, & West meeting in the
Center of Earth, at our solar plexus cauldron. We work within Deep Earth, and learn
how to harmonize with the greater energy body of Mother Earth.
The powers of the Sun and Moon are vertically coupled to “cook” the Directional
spirits/Dragons. This dissolves many patterns trapped in the cycles of Time and
spiritually births the “immortal child” or the greater elixir. We experience our reborn
inner self as our young Inner Sage playing in the global astral field of reality.

This dissolves the boundary between the adept and Nature (including human nature).
It dissolves geomantic (feng shui) blockages in the Earth’s ley lines and heals our
bloodline’s patterns long buried in the bones of the earth and purifies our own blood
of ancestral traumas.

6th Formula of Inner Alchemy

Planetary and Soul Alchemy: Shape Your Destiny

6. Greatest Enlightenment of Kan and Li, also called Planet and Soul Alchemy. This
is One Cloud’s third Kan & Li (Water & Fire) formula. It uses planetary polarities to
cultivate a more refined ling, The ling is roughly equivalent to the western notion of
“soul”, but viewed as an evolutionary process. Your responsibility as a human being
is to “grow” your soul, not to “save” it.

This alchemical process begins with a cosmic Fusion of the Five Elements. It
horizontally integrates in the middle cauldron of the heart our personal self, the 5 vital
organ body spirit-essences, with the 5 planetary forces of the Solar system Self. This
is “living astrology”, in which cosmic forces are interiorized inside the body. The
planets are evolving storehouses for the collective archetypal soul forces of
humanity. We can experience them directly through planetary tones (music of the
spheres), and download their vibration to more deeply divinize our own vital organ
spirits.

For example: we directly experience and make friends with the planetary spirit of
Saturn, ruler of the “Higher Earth” element. It teaches us how to hold the core unity of
living matter and balance planetary and stellar forces of manifestation. Successful
practice removes all fear of death and dissolves deep karmic patterns of resistance
and struggle that plague humanity. In effect, we are completing Humanity’s natal
chart. This process allows us to clearly receive and transmit our soul’s inner “solar
logos” or Way of knowing. The planets ground a deep opening of our inner heart, so
we can become a vessel to receive the Spirit of the Sun. The hidden yin nature of the
Sun (Yin within the Yang) and the hidden yang nature of the Spirit of Earth (Yang
within the Yin) are vertically coupled internally to mature the heart of our Inner Sage.

7th Formula of Inner Alchemy

Star Alchemy: Unite Soul with Over Soul

7. Sealing of the Five Senses, also called Star Alchemy. This unifies the five shen,
the five streams of personal consciousness that operate through our senses, with the
five forces of the collective Stellar Self, in the West called the Over Souls. The body
of our stellar mind can be viewed in the four quadrants of fixed stars in the night sky,
originally symbolized by heraldic animals (Black Turtle, Red Phoenix, Green Dragon,
White Tiger).
The fifth, the quintessence, is the Purple Pole Star in the center of the sky, with the
Great Bear of the Big Dipper marking the progression of the seasons as its handles
rotates like the arm of a cosmic clock. These personal and stellar essences are fused
in the upper dantian, the cauldron in the head. This is the process of our Inner Sage
attaining the stellar logos, celestial level of immortality.

The pure open space connecting the three cauldrons is integrated. This stabilizes the
celestial axis and activates what Lao Tzu calls the “Great Tone”. Profound peace and
different spiritual qualities continuously manifest from this activated core and radiate
sonically into our physical becoming. Our soul pattern expands its conscious destiny
to include dimensions of life beyond the physical plane.

8th Formula of Inner Alchemy

Heaven & Earth Alchemy: Marriage of Form and Formless

8. The Congress of Heaven and Earth, or simply Heaven and Earth Alchemy. This
practice explores the origins of human love and how it serves to integrate the 3
Treasures/Originals of the Tao. We couple the Early Heaven or formless Self with the
Later Heaven (Earth) physical Self. The Self here identifies itself here with two
dimensions that co-exist and co-create: the “formless form” of our being and the
“substantial form” of our becoming.

These two polar dimensions of our greater Self engage in cosmic sex. They couple in
order to re-open the portal to their Original state, or “Pre-Self”. This pre-state or
Primordial Heaven is called hundun, the primal chaos-unity or unconditional love
state that preceded the “big bang” of the cosmic egg cracking open.

The Three Pure Ones or Three Originals (san yuan) of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity
are gathered in the three body cauldrons as original jing, original chi, and original
shen. This three-tone harmonic chord is resonated with the fundamental or original
tone of time and space. Consciousness then stabilizes in the axial center where our
true multi-dimensional nature can now be embodied. A continuum between
unconditional love and the myriad forms of conditional love is consciously
crystallized.

This practice creates a tonal double vortex spinning faster than the speed of light
within the void of space. This opens up fully the Music of the Spheres, the cosmic
subtle bodies in harmonic play. Into this symphony is fused our inner sage’s immortal
presence, the quintessence of humanity meditating on unconditional love in the
center of a cosmic torus (spiritual black hole). We must enter this primordial sound
portal to complete our journey of Return to the Origin.

9th Formula of Inner Alchemy

Human Sage Merges with Tao

9. Union of Human and Tao. This stage is the integration of the eight previous levels
of consciousness into the experience of living simultaneously in the present moment
in all dimensions, from physical linear time to spirit’s eternal time. This state cannot
be fully known or defined conceptually for others. The Taoists simply describe it as
the experience of living fully in the wuji, the Cosmic Present Moment. Wuji is
sometimes translated as the Supreme Unknown -- which could be equated, in
western religious terms, as living from a godhead that has no ruling god.

This is the true achievement of the authentic or Immortal Self, a permanent state of
grace and high creativity known as wu wei, “effortless action”, or “spontaneous action
without acting”. Creation (of the manifest) and Return to Formless Origin seamlessly
complete each other. Attainment of this final level is, in my belief, spontaneous; it is
not a technique. It is the natural evolution of humans to realize their divine nature.

It happens naturally only when our spiritual virtue (de) reaches a refined level. We
have persevered in humbly completing the challenges of our worldly destiny, and
diligently cultivated our highest spiritual virtues given to us as yet-to-be-realized gifts
at birth. The inner will of our immortal sage displaces our personality and reaches
complete alignment with the Tao, Heaven and Earth and Humanity, and the flow of
the Life Force. It is the supreme level of grace, bestowed by direct transmission from
the Tao to the mature and receptive adept.