The Nine Transformations: Regeneration, Longevity, and Immortality in Chinese Alchemy

Traders traveling the Silk Road between China and Persia reintroduced alchemy to Europe in the thirteenth century after centuries of persecution. Followers of Hermes, the father of alchemy, operate under the philosophy that impurities and unhealthy attitudes and actions deplete a person’s vital energies, overtaxing the organs and nerves which leads to disease. These same basic tenets have been adopted or discovered independently by subsequent Eastern and Western alchemical practitioners. Alchemy, whether Eastern or Western, has three important questions to explore: >Who am I and from where did I come? >What is my curriculum I am to learn in this life? >Where am I going? All people have in common nine aspects (called Palaces by the Chinese) through which we explore these questions in depth, both by engaging in the world and through introspection. In this new workbook, author Dr. Mark Holmes uses the Nine Transformations model as the basis for internal or spiritual alchemy, to support changing one’s base personality traits into the golden elixir of the true self, so we become a “real human being” who expresses unconditional loving. The Palaces can be sources of joy or a lifelong challenge, depending upon one’s viewpoint. Throughout this Workbook, Holmes helps you explore how to matriculate those Palaces in which we have karma/attachments by applying time-tested longevity techniques such as: •Meditations and visualizations •Understanding emotions and reframing beliefs •Transforming Five Thieves into Five Virtues •Balancing the Three Treasures/Three Selves •Tonifying organs and meridians •Adjusting diet, taking herbs, stimulating acupuncture pointsJoin Dr. Holmes in self-discovery through the "Nine Transformations" workbook. Dr. Mark Holmes, OMD, L. Ac, Dipl. Chinese Herbs (NCCAOM) and Dipl. Acupuncture (NCCAOM), began his alchemy journey as an oriental philosophy major in the late 1960s. He graduated from formal Oriental medicine studies in Hong Kong in 1974 and developed a high-profile practice at his Center for Regeneration in Beverly Hills. Dr. Holmes now facilitates Chinese alchemy seminars. Visit the author's website here: www.DrMarkHolmes.com Read more