5
Consolidation and Sealing · 固本 · gu ben
Level 5: The Healing Hand
療 · liao
Healing becomes reliable rather than incidental; perception begins to extend.
Description
The first level past the evidence horizon. Danaos and student accounts place the emergence of consistent healing ability here — distinguished from level 4 healing by reliability and by the practitioner's ability to diagnose energetically rather than guess. Chang worked as a healer, and the sources imply that this rather than the fire-lighting was his actual daily practice.
Practice
- No method published.
Signs and effects
- Diagnostic perception — reportedly, "seeing" or feeling a condition in another body directly.
- Healing that does not deplete the practitioner as catastrophically as level 4 projection.
How it is tested
Unknown.
Obstacles
- The stated one: taking on patients' conditions. Multiple accounts describe Chang as physically suffering after heavy healing work.
Notes
- Chang reportedly reached beyond level 4 in the years after Ring of Fire. The exact figure varies by teller, which is itself informative.
Sources for this entry
- The Magus of Java — Kosta Danaos, Inner Traditions, 2000. The founding Western text.
- Nei Kung: The Secret Teachings of the Warrior Sages — Kosta Danaos, Inner Traditions, 2002.
- Community testimony — Forum archives, student accounts, and interviews from the 2000s–2010s.