Taoist Astral Healing: Chi Kung Healing Practices Using Star and Planet Energies Paperback - 2004

From the rear cover

TAOIST ASTROLOGY / HEALING Taoist Astral Healing provides a step-by-step program for refining our ability to cultivate, circulate, and retain chi from the stars and planets. It offers advanced techniques for drawing down energies from the stars and planets in order to grow in awareness and to develop full soul potential. Harnessing these energies allows readers to break through the cycles of attraction and addiction, promote longevity, and transform the physical and energy body into a "light body" in order to heal ourselves and others. Taoist Astral Healing teaches how to connect the body with the five elemental forces of nature, as well as the moon, sun, planets, stars, and galaxies. Noting the relationships between specific constellations and points on the body--such as the Big Dipper's correspondence to the bones of the skull--the authors offer planetary and stellar meditations that allow the inner and outer universes to become more connected. Following techniques derived from Taoist astrology and astronomy, readers develop a personal practice based on an understanding of their strengths and weaknesses and their own spiritual growth. The book also includes Taoist star practices for expanding personal awareness into a cosmic field of chi that will support others in their efforts to heal and grow spiritually. A student of several learned Taoist masters, MANTAK CHIA developed the Universal Tao System in 1979 and is the director of the Universal Tao Center in northern Thailand. He tours the United States annually giving workshops and lectures and is the author of nineteen books, including The Multi-Orgasmic Man. DIRK OELLIBRANDT is codirector of the Du Mai center and school for 4-Dimensional Life and 4-Dimensional Bodywork in Belgium, which explores the dynamics between universal laws and the re-creation of the human body through Taoist and Western healing traditions.