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What is “9 Cosmic Spirals” Meditation?

 

 

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While teaching Tao hermit One Cloud’s Fusion of the 5 Elements techniques over many decades, I discovered 3 key weaknesses. They may have arisen partly due to Mantak Chia’s transmission, as he was just a teenager in high school when he received them from One Cloud. Even with flaws, they were extremely valuable methods, for this I am still very grateful.

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The 3 Key Fusion Flaws:

1. No Jing Qi Shen Practice

1. Fusion did NOT include Jing-Qi-Shen alchemy theory or application. The formula was taught as “guide Qi-only”, limiting its effectiveness. I noticed that for many students Fusion eventually “dried up”, became mechanical. It lost its juice without all three being included in the transformation process.

1a. There are 5 phases in every substance (Jing), as our physical organs or as seasons, body of Nature.

1b. There are 5 phases of subtle energy or living breath (Qi) that moves the substance (Jing).

1c. There are 5 phases of self-awareness or spiritual qualities (Shen) that infuse the subtle breath (Qi).

Aligning and shaping the 5 Phase flow of Jing-Qi-Shen is what allows us to capture the power of Nature’s cycless and put it to work to achieve our highest destiny.

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2. Different Emotional Body, China vs. West

2. Westerners have a different Feeling or Emotional Body than Chinese. I had to adjust the Fusion 1 formula to allow for Western need to individuate (vs. Chinese follow collective social feeling).

The original teaching tried to stop or mask all “negative”, i.e. socially unacceptable individual feelings at once – very Confucian. Westerners found themsevesl choking on an “emotional traffic jam”.

I give credit to Mantak – in the early years of the Healing Tao, he knew he did not deeply grasp Western emotions, and often asked me to teach Fusion at his retreats.

It’s a huge issue in China: everyone must put on a public “face” to guard against personal feelings slipping out. That’s why wearing face masks is not a big deal or loss of freedom vs. for Westerners.

If your individual emotions invade or corrupt your social-collective feelings, you are seen  as “crazy” and are  “de-platformed” from your social relations. So you must “shut up” and “suppress” uncomfortable personal feelings, or risk being shunned.

It can be severe, and has driven some Chinese teens to suicide. I dated a Chinese women who was so viciously attacked for this at her high school in China that she moved to the West.

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3. No Macro-cosmic Orbit (8 Extra linked)

3. The 8 Extraordinary Vessels were poorly utilized, added  to Fusion by Mantak as an after -thought (taken from Jin Shin Do acupressure originator Iona Teeguarden). The 8 Extra were not linked together into a single MACRO-cosmic orbit.

The Macro Orbit is what integrates our PERSONAL Energy Body to the COSMIC Energy Body. Another way to frame it: the 8 Extra vessels connect our PERSONALITY (xin, heart-mind)  to our SOUL (ling, “inner heart essence”).

                               Proto-Cosmic Orbit

Note: There is a third PROTO-cosmic Orbit between Source and Creation. That is beyond body/mind and soul, but includes Over Soul. That isn’t accessible or meaningful until you practice Star Alchemy or the Heaven & Earth Alchemy formula, the highest currently taught.

I’m still working on the final formula, integrating the Inner Sage with the Unknowable Mystery (wuji). I’m making good progress; it requries a very deep grasp of inner sound.

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How to Correct “Fusion Confusion”?

To correct these weaknesses in Fusion, I experimented with many different methods, like a good alchemist. I eventually evolved the 9 Cosmic Spirals mediation:

a. It incorporates Jing-Qi-Shen theory and practice.

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b. It offers an energetic spiral and Torus (donut) structure for bridging the gap in vibration between our inner (Micro-Orbit) and the vastness of the cosmos (Macro-Orbit).

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c. It activates and links core vertical thrusting channels of the 8 Extraordinary Vessels.

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Enlightenment vs. Immortality

9 Cosmic Spirals helps correct the common illusion of meditators who clear their personal Energy Body of distracting thoughts or feelings. They believe that feelings of “mental emptiness” and local bliss constitutes the final goal of enlightenment.

Calming the “monkey mind” is a good foundation, but you are still sitting on the surface of planet Earth, and have not yet merged with many higher dimensions or the Supreme Unknown (wuji). Seeking “enlightenment” does put you on the path to “immortality”.

In short, local emptiness does not equal cosmic emptiness, or what Taoist would see more as “Original openness” to the eternal birthing of Creation. Seeking absolute emptiness is an illusory goal.

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                  Best Sequence of Training

d. Before you can expand your Personal Energy Body (= soul) out into the cosmos in a grounded, systematic Way, you have to first open and link the 8 Extraordinary Vessels together WITHIN your body.

There is a MACRO Wudang version of the Red Dragon Spinning Pearl Micro Orbit, taught in my Qigong Fundamentals level 2. I have incorporated the Wudang Macro Orbit into Fusion 3. It also uses spiral dragon power.

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So the best energetic progression is 3-fold:

1. Wudang Micro-cosmic Orbit

2. Wudang Macro-cosmic Orbit

3. 9 Cosmic Spirals

The 9 Cosmic Spirals plants the seed of self-empowerment.

It gives you a glimpse of the territory to be covered in future alchemy formula.

We spiral from Personal Energy Body, to energy bodies of Earth, Saturn, Sun, then Pole Star, Zodiac, and Great Oneness. Then Return. The spirals gather and concentrate Jing, Qi, and Shen at all levels into a triple-nested torus.

Torus is the shape of the Cosmic Energy Body.

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If you cannot attend the LIVE Fusion 2&3 workshop, consider getting the home-study coursse.

The only pre-req is Fundamentals 1&2. Fusion 2&3 may be taken BEFORE Fusion 1, but you will eventually want both before moving into the Water & Fire (Kan & Li) inner alchemy formulas.

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Loving the Way of Cosmic Spirals,

Michael Winn

“Who takes Heaven as his ancestor, Virtue as his home,
the Tao as his door, and who becomes change — is a
Sage.” — Chuang Tzu, Inner Chapters, 300 b.c.

“The Tao is very close, but everyone looks far away.
Life is very simple, but everyone seeks difficulty.”
— Taoist Sage, 200 B.C