New Isabelle Robinet book on Internal Alchemy

I’m ordering this book, as Isabelle was one of the best scholars of internal alchemy. Translations of her french writings for first time. Note offer below includes discounts. – Michael

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From: Golden Elixir Press

Hello,
Thank you for your interest in “The World Upside Down”. The book has just been published. If you like, you can order it at http://www.goldenelixir.com/press/tao_02_robinet.html.

If you are interested in the paperback version, enter the code you will find in the web page for a 15% discount. If you are interested in the PDF version, use the “Add to Cart” button, and enter the code “notify” (no quotation marks) for a 10% discount.
Fabrizio Pregadio

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

Golden Elixir Press is pleased to announce the publication of The World Upside Down: Essays on Taoist Internal Alchemy, by Isabelle Robinet, in paperback and PDF editions.
The World Upside Down contains four essays on Internal Alchemy (Neidan), 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).
See below for free samples from this book.
Isabelle Robinet (1932-2000) was one of the most important Western scholars of Taoism. Her work dealt with several major topics: the Laozi and the Zhuangzi with their commentaries; the Shangqing (Highest Clarity) school of Taoism; Neidan (Internal Alchemy); and Taoist thought and cosmology. Her publications in English include Taoist Meditation: The Mao-shan Tradition of Great Purity (1993) and Taoism: Growth of a Religion (1997).

Publication Data
Isabelle Robinet, The World Upside Down: Essays on Taoist Internal Alchemy
Edited and translated by Fabrizio Pregadio
viii + 129 pp.
Golden Elixir Press, 2011 — ISBN 978-0-9843082-6-2
Paperback, US$ 15.95 (list price) — PDF, US$ 9.95 (list price)
Web page: http://www.goldenelixir.com/press/tao_02_robinet.html

Table of contents
Acknowledgements, vii
The World Upside Down in Taoist Internal Alchemy, 1
The Alchemical Language, or the Effort to Say the Contradictory, 17
Role and Meaning of Numbers in Taoist Cosmology and Alchemy, 45
On the Meaning of the Terms Waidan and Neidan, 75
Tables and Pictures, 103
Appendix: Works by Isabelle Robinet, 113
Glossary of Chinese Characters, 117
Works Quoted, 123

Free online Samples
• PDF sample (62 pages)
http://www.goldenelixir.com/files/Robinet_The_World_Upside_Down_SAMPLE.pdf

• Yin and Yang in Internal Alchemy (web page)
http://www.goldenelixir.com/jindan/robinet_yin_and_yang.html

• “Reversal” in Internal Alchemy (web page)
http://www.goldenelixir.com/jindan/robinet_reversal.html

• The Language of Internal Alchemy (web page)

http://www.goldenelixir.com/jindan/robinet_language.html

With best wishes,

Golden Elixir Press
http://www.goldenelixir.com