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The World Upside Down

Four essays on Internal Alchemy by Isabelle Robinet

Isabelle Robinet, The World Upside Down: Essays on Taoist Internal Alchemy

Golden Elixir Press, 2011
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This book contains four essays on Internal Alchemy by Isabelle Robinet, originally published in French and translated here for the first time into English. The essays are concerned with the alchemical principle of "inversion"; the devices used by the alchemists to "give form to the Formless by the word, and thus manifest the authentic and absolute Dao"; the symbolic function of numbers in Taoism and in Internal Alchemy; and the original meanings of the terms "External Elixir" (waidan) and "Internal Elixir" (neidan) Read more....

News from the Press

● The Seal of the Unity of the Three is now available in a hardcover edition and in an abridged PDF version, entitled "The Essential Cantong qi".

● Recently published: Vol. 2 of The Seal of the Unity of the Three, containing a study of the Cantong qi and its textual tradition.

● New web page: Selections from the Daode jing on the Taoist saint.

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