water gate, fire gate and inner alchemy of Kumar lineage

If this posting is accurate (i.e. by a recent student of Kumar), it is a late development, probably a competitive development to Healing Tao Water and Fire methods.

I took Kumar’s entire training the first time he offered the complete cycle of both his water chi kung and bagua training. At the time he did not know I was teaching inner alchemy, as I had not put out any products. Certainly he knew I had written Mantak’s books, because I helped him write his first book, Open the Energy Gates.

I had long discussions with him about the end development of his alchemical teaching, and they did not include any of the fire methods or use of visualizations, chanting, moving the cauldron. It was limited to Yang spontaneously arising from the water at the end of your life/training.

Certainly he knew of fire methods, but pooh poohed them. He invented the “water school ” of taoism to create a marketing niche. It doesn’t exist in china, according to many of his students who have searched hard (ask Frank Allen, his oldest student).

Of course, you can use any elemental gate – here water gate – as starting point for alchemy. That is same as yin practice of Inner Smile in Healing Tao – it pretty much covers (same dissolving principle, not same technique) everything covered in Kumar’s Water School. To call it water gate would have been accurate and more honest.His books are unfortunately marred by attacks on fire methods. I suspect he found himself locked into a slow deadend of water methods only and is trying to move away from it without calling it that.