Forging The Immortal Body

A Manual of Taoist Internal Cultivation and Biological Transformation - Neigong, Shengong and Qigong for True Martial PowerSifu Michael Johnson

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Forging the Immortal Body is a nonfiction instructional manual on Taoist internal cultivation — Neigong, Shengong, and Qigong — written by a martial arts grandmaster with over thirty-five years of teaching experience. The tone is direct, authoritative, and grounded. This is not a wellness book. It is a serious technical text written by a practitioner who teaches these methods and expects the reader to train. The narration should carry the weight of a master instructor speaking to a serious student — calm, unhurried, precise. Not dramatic. Not motivational. The science sections are dense but clear; read them with steady confidence, not clinical detachment. The personal stories and practice sections should feel like being in the room with a teacher who has seen everything and wastes no words. The author's voice is a man who has trained in silence, taught for decades, and earned the right to say what he says. Match that.

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GenreHealth and Wellness, Spirituality and Religion

Length7 hrs 9 mins

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FormateBook with Audio

Publish dateMar 12, 2026

LanguageEnglish

1Introduction

10SOUND, FREQUENCY COHERENCE, AND THE REGENERATIVE FIELD

2HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

11THE INTEGRATED FIELD

3WHAT THE BODY IS

12INTENSITY WITHOUT EXPENDITURE: THE MARTIAL BODY AND ITS COST

4QIGONG: BREATHING THE FIELD INTO ORDER

13THE IMMORTAL BODY DEFINED

5NEIGONG: FORGING THE PHYSICAL CONTAINER

14SHENGONG: REWIRING THE COMMAND CENTER

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6SEALING THE VESSEL

15ASCENSION: THE SCIENCE OF BECOMING

7JING: WHAT THE BODY HOLDS IN RESERVE

16ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

8TENDON, FASCIA, AND THE ELECTRICAL BODY

17THE WORK CONTINUES

9WASHING THE MARROW: HOW THE BODY REBUILDS ITSELF

18BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES

About the author

Sifu Michael Johnson

Sifu Michael Johnson is an 8th Duan Grandmaster and Zongshi of Tzu Jan Men, a Taoist martial arts system of the Wei Family Lineage. With over thirty-five years of practice, he teaches at Cloud Forest Martial Arts Institute in Greensboro, North Carolina. He holds doctoral degrees in Metaphysics and Philosophy and is the author of Quiet Guardians and The Quiet Warriors: An Ethical Violence. The Quantum Human represents decades of lived practice distilled into a framework that holds science and spirit in the same room.View all by Sifu Michael Johnson