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Chapter 3: Goals of the Fusion Practice
3. Spirit Body
3. Shuttle flies free
(Spirit Body).
2. Energy Body
The booster rockets
separate (the Energy
Body completes the
lifting of the Spirit
Body).
2. Booster Rockets
lift-off with the
shuttle (Energy
Body).
1. Physical Body
1. Launching
(Physical Body)
Fig. 3.13 Energy, Physical and Spiritual Bodies
By regularly turning the awareness inward in the Fusion of the
Five Elements practice, we gradually come to know our energetic
essences as well as we know our face, our arms and our legs. We
learn to distill these essences into a pearl, as a sort of “space
capsule” to carry our essential energy and consciousness out of
the physical body. With regular practice, Taoists who follow the
path of Inner Alchemy learn to move their Energy Body and consciousness
in and out of their physical body as easily as one might
walk from one room into another.
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