Here in a single narrow quantity is a easy creation to chinese language alchemy--a culture that dates again 5,000 years.
Chinese alchemy, principally linked to Taoism, has a recorded historical past of greater than 2,000 years, yet frequently it is going again even extra to just about 3000 BC and the time of the Yellow Emperor. whereas Western alchemy used to be enthusiastic about the quest for religious and fabric gold, vintage Taoist alchemy used to be a magical quest for immortality with its goal being union with the Absolute.
Jean Cooper describes the historical past and improvement of Taoist alchemy, compares it to related traditions in India and Turkistan, and provides it context through contrasting it with the explanation of the Western airtight culture. As she writes in her concluding bankruptcy: The entire paintings of alchemy is summed up within the word "To make of the physique a spirit and of the spirit a body". . . . The target of the Taoist alchemist-mystic used to be transformation, or maybe extra effectively, transfiguration, of the total physique until eventually it ceases to "be" and is absorbed into and turns into the Tao.
This is an important consultant for someone drawn to chinese language legend and lore, chinese language magic and medication, and Taoism.
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