Later books and training manuals
The one German-language book on the subject, presenting itself as a complete training and reference work that sets classical Taoist principles beside physiology, neuroscience and biomechanics. It follows the 72-stage structure but sets out only the first twenty-two in detail. Not translated into English at the time of writing.
The fullest book-length treatment of the training after Danaos, by an author whose background is in Western hermetics, Taoist nei gong, Tibetan alchemy and kundalini yoga rather than in the Mo Pai lineage. It covers…
A short book about the prerequisites: what the author holds a person must settle before level one is worth attempting. It discusses the first four levels without giving their practice, and it ends by directing the…
Reads Mo Pai alongside Taoist internal alchemy and tantric physiology, and argues the whole thing is better understood as an early biological technology — nervous system regulation, breath control, polarity, endocrine…
An acupuncturist and palliative care practitioner in the UK going back over the existing record — the Ring of Fire footage and the accounts left by Chang’s two Western students — and setting it against what he knows…
The same author's treatment of what the training is said to do to the person doing it, and of the discipline the tradition places around that. Catalogued under both names because the listings differ: the paperback is…
