Mark English | Neigong & Spiritual Immortality: Chi Cultivation For Consciousness Accumulation
Mark English, aka Eso El, joins InnerVerse to talk about his practice and teachings with Neigong techniques. Tune in to discover the chi condensing power of the dantien, creating the out-of-body consciousness vehicle, retaining full individuated memory and awareness after death, becoming a placenta to your next body, psychic & energetic abilities through chi cultivation, and the path to become a player instead of spectator in the game of immortality.
In the Plus+ Extension we discuss the three types of chi, ancient Egyptians and original Buddhism as keepers of these chi techniques, the economy of virtue on the soul's journey through lives, the path of Gnosis, germs and generative powers, the origin and fall of humanity, and the periodical renovation of the matrix. All that and much more…
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Core themes
Two Lineages, Two Kinds Of Cultivation
English says he trained under two lineages and has just become a disciple under a third, and he untangles what the modern world lumps together as qigong, neigong and neidan. The first branch, which he calls jing jin or muscle tendon changing neigong, works with acquired or post birth chi and begins by condensing energy in the lower abdomen through reverse abdominal breathing, a method he credits to a Buddhist kung fu family and to Shaolin disciple Chief Misan and Grandmaster Golin. The second branch, spirit cultivation, he contends was deliberately kept out of books, leaving Western readers only the foundational jing, chi and shen material.
The Dantian, The Girdle Vessel And The Iron Body
English calls the lower dantian a bioelectric battery sitting in the center of the abdomen, and describes it as level one of the game. He points to the girdle vessel, a horizontal meridian circling the waist, and to the huang, the Chinese name for the fascia and the empty spaces between the organs, as what the chi mobilizes through, citing the old saying about separating the flesh from the bone. Later he argues a microcosmic orbit should be thick, shoulder to shoulder, and recalls Grandmaster Golin breaking bricks with his head as iron body attainment. Chance Garton compares notes as a Wu family qigong practitioner.
Yin Shen, Yang Shen And Spiritual Immortality
English describes the yin shen as the chi or astral body that most people never gather, dispersed like a cloud around the lower dantian and, in his account, unable to hold itself together after death without anchoring back into a human body. Yang shen training, he says, condenses and strengthens it until it takes the form of an embryo that rises through the crown, which he reads as the meaning behind the Buddha on the lotus. He states he has been through the process himself and is instructed to take it out only once weekly, twenty to thirty minutes, overseen by the grandmaster.
Embryonic Breathing And The Spiritual Pregnancy
English argues the belly on the Buddha is not allegory but a spiritual pregnancy available to men and women alike, formed from a person's own innate chi rather than another's seed, and he references the book Chi Kung Meditation: Embryonic Breathing on dual cultivation. He describes internal embryonic breathing as a respiration that does not run on inhale and exhale through the nose and mouth, the way one breathed in the womb, and contends that all breath work, yoga and neigong were ultimately aimed at activating it. Garton likens the role to becoming a placenta for your own next body.
Virtue, Religion And The Game Of Immortality
English frames what he calls a consciousness accretion process, distinct from animal death, and insists the energy work is worthless without a code of conduct, arguing that lust, anger and envy consume what has been gathered and that the church's deadly sins were really the law of the energy field. He describes his lineage's heavenly essence qigong as holographic transmissions from Grandmaster Zang, likens the Dao to Wi-Fi with a master as the signal booster, and says these teachings reached the West only after the Chinese Communist Party's crackdown. He closes on stadium spectators who know everything and never play.
Quotes
“The body has a bioelectric battery. It's centered directly in the center of the abdomen called the lower dantian.”
“The spiritual immortality is kind of like being able to keep your memory and sense of individuated self after the physical body is deceased.”
“Within the caterpillar is a butterfly, right? So within the human being is that yin shen that can be coalesced, gathered, condensed, and strengthened.”
“The placenta while you're in the womb is literally a living spiritual being that is sharing the identical DNA with you.”
“Human beings was meant to go through what's called a consciousness accretion process, not the same process of death like the animal kingdom.”
“This is why meditation is so important, I think, because essentially what we're talking about is the ability to maintain your attention indefinitely, without losing track, without zoning out.”
“And it's the same for the game of immortality, enlightenment. Not much human beings are actually playing this cultivation game.”
“If there was a meaning to this life, it would be to figure out how to extend that life forward into the future.”
Mark English, also known as Eso El, teaches Neigong — chi cultivation practices for energy work, out-of-body consciousness, and spiritual development. He appeared on InnerVerse to discuss condensing chi through the dantien and cultivating awareness that persists beyond death.
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