This is a post about
AlchemicalTaoism.com,
which a pretty humble-looking website by a guy called Keith Franzen. The page is currently "on sabbatical," and I'm not sure what that means but I hope it means Keith will soon return with more material. To actually read the contents of the website prior to this sabbatical leave, you can use the internet archive:
Alchemical Taoism, Internet Archive, as in May 9, 2012.
I have stumbled across this website almost three years ago while looking for effective grounding practices. I ended up doing
The three amigos of rooting, and found the practice incredibly effective at managing and toning down the
excessive, mind-blowing levels of energy that I was going through at the time (which at first felt like lovemaking with the entire universe, and then developed into something more akin to being raped by the entire universe; later I was told that excessive energy is a frequent occurrence during 1st path).
Funnily enough, after having used the practice and after it working so well, I soon forgot about alchemicaltaoism.com and did mostly other things. I was a fool not to have explored the material any further; probably I was tricked by the apparent simplicity, rough layout, and uninspiring style of presentation.
But actually I should have recognized the kind of depth that can only come through serious long-term practice by an able individual. I nowadays consider it to be the best pragmatical-dharma resource I know of that addresses energy cultivation practices (which are sometimes hardcore, but seldom pragmatic and almost-never dogma-free). The website is just an amalgamation of different stuff, it is not very well organized and is not uniformly presented (sometimes the material presented is just a copy-paste of discussions from online forums!), and yet I am starting to have the impression that it is a bit like a sweet potato: simple and ugly-looking but with a very sweet, nutritious core.
Check it out now!
Alchemical Taoism, Internet Archive, as in May 9, 2012.
It will take years to explore everything (and maybe I won't), but I might append a description of
some of the practices and how they are working for me.