墨派 · The archive of Mo
The Mo Pai Archive
Rediscovering Ancient Teachings
A Taoist nei kung lineage, a ladder of seventy-two levels, one man in Java who could set paper alight with his hands, and about thirty minutes of 1988 television that brought all of it to the world's attention.
This archive gathers what the sources say: the curriculum level by level, the people, the history, the demonstrations, and the vocabulary. Each entry names where it comes from — the books and instruction sheets, or, above level 4, this archive's own reconstruction from classical alchemy.
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Foundations
Mo Pai: An Overview
What the tradition claims to be, stated plainly and without decoration.
People and History
John Chang
The shopkeeper in Java who became the most famous internal-energy practitioner of the twentieth century, and hated it.
Practice
The Training Method
Everything the sources actually say about what you do, assembled in one place.
Accounts
The Demonstrations
A catalogue of what was witnessed, filmed and recorded — set out as the sources give it.
People and History
Ring of Fire and "Dynamo Jack"
The thirty minutes of television that created the entire subject.
Accounts
Stories from the Source Material
The anecdotes that carry the tradition, retold with their provenance attached.
Where each entry comes from
The published record is deep for the first four levels and thin above them. Every level entry says which it is, so you always know whether you are reading the lineage's own material or this archive's reconstruction of it.