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Wang Liping
Wang Liping represents one of the most rigorously documented cases of a living transmission holder of esoteric Taoist internal alchemy — a lineage the Chinese state has alternately suppressed and instrumentalised. His publicly documented capacities — including extended states without food, water, or sleep — place him squarely in the territory suppressed-science researchers like Dean Radin and the Noetic Sciences crowd have circled but never fully engaged. The specific neidan (inner elixir) practices he transmits are virtually absent from Western academic or New Age coverage.
Evidence
- The training described includes prolonged sensory deprivation and immobility, transmission of 'shen' (spirit) directly between master and student, and the cultivation of the 'yang shen' — a subtle body capable of projection and independent operation.
- 1949, Liaoning) is the 18th-generation transmission holder of the Longmen Pai (Dragon Gate Sect) of Quanzhen Taoism, a lineage stretching back to Wang Chongyang and his disciple Qiu Chuji (13th century).
- Rupert Sheldrake's morphic resonance framework and Robert Monroe's out-of-body cartography (Monroe Institute) provide the closest Western analogues, though neither directly references Wang.