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The Yin Shen and Separation · 陰神 · yin shen
Level 23: Coherence Abroad
The travelling spirit retains full waking intelligence.
Description
The travelling spirit retains full waking intelligence. Distinguished from dreaming by the retention of judgement and memory.
This entry is a reconstruction. The Mo Pai sources do not publish a curriculum for level 23, so what appears above is drawn from classical Taoist internal alchemy and from the shape the Mo Pai literature implies for the "The Yin Shen and Separation" band. It is a map of the territory the tradition describes, written by this archive rather than taken from the lineage.
Practice
- Reconstructed. The lineage method for this level is not published.
Signs and effects
- Distinguished from dreaming by the retention of judgement and memory.
How it is tested
Not published. Teacher-verified, as at every level below.
Obstacles
- Unknown.
Sources for this entry
- The classical neidan corpus — Zhong-Lü texts, Wuzhen pian, Longmen commentaries, and the wider internal alchemy literature — the actual technical parent of Mo Pai's methods.
- Editorial reconstruction — Written by this archive from the classical material, where the lineage sources do not publish a curriculum.