Alchemy Journal Vol.2 No.6

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Alchemy Journal Vol.2 No.6.
Volume 2 No.6 November-December 2001
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 Alchemy Journal Vol.2 No.6.
Three Gems of Alchemical
Initiation
Part 2: Sublimation of Ching, the
Second Gem of Alchemy
By
Lynn Osburn
The sublimation of
ching
is the second alchemical
gemstone. When ching is sublimated through the
inner circulation you can become aware of your
subtle body. Chi circulates through the inner
circulation. Ching can rise through the
microcosmic orbit and enliven or activate the
dormant subtle body. The subtle body is the
complement of the gross (physical) body. When
enlivened by the reverse flow of ching the
dormant subtle body begins to develop. The old
Taoist masters called this development of the
immortal fetus.
Ching energy is produced naturally by your
physical body. This natural product is sexual
energy. Ching is creation power. As sexual
energy it is unconsciously produced and driven by
biological instinct instilled by the great mother
Void Chaos. The physical portal for the production of this microcosmic quintessence is the sex organ
systems in men and women. When these complementary powers intermingle through sexual intercourse a
new life can be created. The gross (physical) life created is the embryo that can become a new human
being provided the electromagnetic and biochemical cascade of matter in the embryo has enough shen to
complete its course.
Physical life is created by the union of outward flowing semen in men with the transmigrating egg in
women. This unconscious intercourse produces a new human being. When a man prevents the outward
flow of semen during sexual practice while drawing the orgasmic energy upward the subtle body can
become manifest. The subtle body is in this way enlivened with ching power. Being slowly coalesces
there; the immortal fetus is born. Consciousness, feeling and sensation are able to precipitate there.
The Taoist alchemical classic
Secret of the Golden Flower
, details this process but it does not address the
Prima materia
— sexuality — openly. Classic Western alchemical texts never speak of sexuality. Instead
symbolic sexuality is linked to processes going on inside of sealed laboratory equipment. Often a king and
queen are pictured in cohabitation upon waters in an alchemical vessel. Those European adepts referred
to the process as
mysterium conjuctionis
—mysterious conjunction.
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This marriage of the King and Queen is seen as an allegory for the
enlivening processes going on inside the alchemical vessel. Indeed many
a chaste Medieval Christian alchemist was barred by religious prejudice
from discovering even the possibility of sublimating orgasmic energy.
I was first exposed to the idea of sublimation of sexual energy when I read
Taoist Yoga Alchemy and Immortality
by Lu K’uan Yu. This is a translation of
his teacher’s nineteenth century manuscript. I was a young man when I first
read it and rejected the notion of sexual sublimation for it barred orgasmic
ejaculation. That was antithetical to my sexual drive at that time. In fact
sexuality and lusty thoughts were called evil in the text. Years later I
discovered this negative attitude toward sex was an influence first from
Buddhism then Christianity. I had all but forgotten about sublimation of
sexual energy for alchemical purposes until I read the work of Mantak Chia,
a modern master of Taoist alchemy from Thailand. I had been a journeyman
alchemist for twenty years by then. I had been circulating chi for ten years
but my old incredulity return when I first read his book,
Taoist Secrets of
Love, Cultivating Male Sexual Energy.
However, I had learned to circulate chi by syncretizing certain Rosicrucian
breathing exercises with the circulation patterns outlined in
Taoist Yoga
Alchemy and Immortality
. I was no longer a youth and approaching middle
age. My sex drive had become somewhat tempered, and I had gained too
much respect for the Tao to dismiss the idea of sublimating sexual energy as
laid out by Mantak Chia. He was using the same Taoist microcosmic orbit to
flux sexual energy. I studied the book and followed the exercises. I found that sublimating ching was not
that difficult since rotating chi through the inner circulation had become second nature for me by then.
Sublimating ching can be dangerous. Ching is much denser power than chi. It travels up the spinal column
concentrating subtle body base capacitor qualities in the medulla-cerebellum. From there It penetrates
inward into the light gathering organ, the pineal gland; a pulsation is felt as the floating Point opens in the
middle of the forehead. If the charge is sustained in the subtle capacitor It then loads into the port and
starboard shen channels saturating Sylvian brain fissures (Called the Supreme Ultimate and Immaterial
Spirit respectively by the Taoist alchemists.). Ching in the shen channels can induce power surges into the
optic nerves because of the proximity. That surge of energy can cause clusters of blood vessels to blow
out. To avoid the danger of ching build-up in the shen channels one must circulate chi after sublimating
ching. The excess ching in the subtle body is converted through circulation into life sustaining chi power.
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I highly recommend reading Mantak Chia’s book(s) before
proceeding. Sublimating ching is not harmless like circulating
chi. If one adheres religiously to the traditional methods taught
by Mantak Chia then sublimating ching is fairly safe. However
the alchemy of ching power spills out well beyond the confines
of the traditional methods. If you succeed in sublimating ching
and create your own immortal fetus by awakening the subtle
body you will become aware of the painful conundrums of
sexual power.
To sublimate ching one must collect sexual energy then
concentrate It. You do this by stimulation sexually to a point
near orgasm. The closer to orgasm you get the more ching
there is. That energy builds in the groin area and must be drawn
upward. This is accomplished by drawing in a deep breath while
pulling the hot sexual energy up the spine through the inner
circulation. This is the opposite direction as in circulating chi.
To keep the power from flowing into orgasmic energy you
should clinch the buttocks and fists while pulling the energy
upward. It first moves into a cavity near the bowels. Store It
there and build another charge and store It the same way.
Collective charges stored there from multiple surging
concentrates until the sexual fluids that usually carry orgasmic
energy become overcharged. Thus overcharged they will
escape; the sages say do not spill your seed.
With the supercharge of ching collected stop the sexual
gathering and concentrate on drawing the ching up the spine
with each inhalation. You will feel It getting dense at the base of your skull. With each inhalation more of It
will collect at the base of your skull until this subtle body basal capacitor is fully saturated with ching
power. Then the power will jump to the center of your brain and cause a sensation in the middle of your
forehead; that is the Floating Point Navigator opening. Should you have enough ching still rising to keep
the capacitor charged the density fans out to the left and right saturating the Sylvian fissures above the
ears. This signifies the shen generators are charging in the Lateral Ventricles. Should you have still more
ching rising the density can be drawn to the crowning point at the top of your skull. Should that open you
will know ONE and become Ion. (Personification in eternity)
This process can be seen in the following drawings. Left (or First): Ching power rising in the main
channel saturating the brain in a man; from Taoist Secrets of Love Cultivating Male Sexual Energy, by
Mantak Chia. Right (or Second): Ching power flowing in complete circuit in a woman. (from
Healing
Love Through the Tao, Cultivating Female Sexual Energy
by Mantak & Maneewan Chia).
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