There is a lot of information on the internet, some of it is probably true, some of it is bullshit.
So if someone is willing to share useful information and practices to share It would be really appreciated.
I personally felt and seen benefits from semen retention, combined with cold showers working out and trying to be as productive as possible,but It might been placebo or bebefits of all of those things combined, excluding the semen retention
Semen retention almost always made me more motivated until enough time passed or night emmision happened.
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I’m mixed about what I would want to say. I haven’t checked the information that has been spread recently but, when I was checking on things a few years ago, most of the information that I found was pretty useless.
From what I have read, only the Quanzhen lineage (and practitioners who had somehow connected to it in history) had a complete picture of how transmutation works that was committed into written form.
That being said, I would not want to disclose much information about that because the basic barrier to advancing on that path was whether or not a person commits to a few hours of meditation each day. That was the moral barrier because prolonged sitting would (over time) force different layers of the person’s sense of self to disappear as the alchemy advanced. —Since people have a tendency to want fields to replace doing the work, I don’t think I would say much more about the process.
One thing that might be worth mentioning is a distinction that has been made between different phases of orbits. The various “carts” have been used in different contexts, but one specific set of meanings can help to explain what I mean. The “Goat cart” has been explained as the state of the microcosmic orbit when you begin transmuting sexual energy and it exists in a more mobile, post-natal state . It is called the “goat cart” because it can take a while to gain strength and to fully animate the orbit. Days/weeks of continued meditation on the lower dantian (paired with a celibate state) can cause the emergence of the positive principle. It is basically a kundalini activation—when you get to the point of raising kundalini it has that somewhat forceful and speedy uncoiling up the spine. In Taoist parlance, this has sometimes been termed the “deer cart”, because it is swift.
If you were pursuing neidan, all of this would have to take place in meditation and it would simply occur in response to the accumulation of different energies. If you were simply looking to transmute the energy into something less physical, then it is possible to use sex-related practices. I would, personally, not recommend those. They can be expedient but I ultimately don’t believe that they are correct since they force kundalini to activate and don’t involve the internal pairing of opposites in equal measures. It is, however, possible to channel that energy into psychic centers in the brain. Lots of western occultists seem to be enamored with doing that.
But becoming very familiar with what kundalini is, the cycles that it functions in—all of that. That is the sort of thing you would need to look into for getting a handle on actually transmuting energy. Most of the information that I encountered in the past gave very little practical information and it usually dipped into transgressive practices.
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