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I have read the Tao Te Ching now... and I will probably read each chapter of it 50-100 times more before I will really think I understand the writings... as well as a lot of meditation on the subject...


This is what I want to know. I have heard mention in a few different places of "taoist sorcery" (mostly in reference to the I-Ching). I want to know what this "Taoist sorcery" is, what the practices are... and everything else about it. The best sources for me a free... as I'm a poor college student that is also married, and thus can't afford too many expenditures.

I would like to learn more about the I Ching and Qigong... and anything else I can. Really I guess I'm interested in all of the eastern practices at the moment, but those that are more closely related to tha Tao would be appreciated.


Probably part of why I want to learn about it is because it doesn't mention it... I have no interest in Satanic Magic, because it is very clearly detailed in the Satanic Bible (which I've also read very recently).

My knowledge in this arena is a bit more solid, since I studied acupuncture. To the best of what I've been able to gather, taoist magic is also sometimes called yin-yang magic, and has to do with understanding the concepts of yin, yang, and their relationship. Once you understand it well enough, the theory runs that you can change anything so long as you understand how to encourage its movement and transformation along the cycle. To give you a very basic idea, the relationship runs that both yin and yang can only increase up to a point, at which point it begins to become the opposite. Look at the yin/yang symbol - when each side is at its most pronounced, it contains the seed of the opposing force within it. Put another way (and one that I heard a lot during theory lectures), a thing and its opposite can be considered the same.

There's a basic similarity between regular ol' acupuncture (okay, well, in the Five Element tradition, at least - I'm not positive about TCM because of the heavy Maoist influence) and yin-yang magic, but to my understanding the magic aspect gets a bit more mystic. I'm not sure, not having studied it, but there seem to be invocations, though I'm not sure whether it's invocation of entities or principles. Please post if you find anything new on the subject - I've often been a bit curious myself.