Shamanism Meets Taoism: The Hidden Link in 3,000 Years of Magic and Mysticism

Let’s time travel and step into the mystical lineage of the Neolithic Wu 巫 shamans that laid the foundation for Taoist mysticism. This video lecture explores the birth of Taoist magic and the enduring legacy of Wu shamanism. We’ll decode Taoist occultism as it is practiced today to reveal the hidden history of how shamanism shaped the mystical practices of East Asia, preserving and refining early shamanistic techniques into a structured magical system.

Part video lecture, part written lecture notes for review, we’ll deep-dive into the history of Chinese shamanic practices to uncover the origins and birth of Taoist ritual magic.

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Taoism: A Decolonized Introduction

This is a video lecture on Taoism from the perspective of its native, lived cultural roots. It frames Taoism as an indigenous Chinese tradition and the fundamental assumptions that tradition is grounded upon. Drawing from classical texts and references, the lecture explores Taoist beliefs and practices as a dynamic, syncretic tradition that bridges philosophy, religion, and mysticism. It reclaims Taoism as a rational metaphysical system born from the ancestral soul-DNA of the Yellow River civilization.

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Introduction to Chinese Occultism

Taoism is a nature-based religion, philosophy, and a 2,000 year old tradition of sorcery native to China since the Zhou Dynasty. In that same time, Buddhism enters China and a modality of it–esoteric Buddhism–is blended in with Taoist magic. Yet the roots of Taoist magic trace back even further than the dynasties of antiquity, back to Neolithic shamanism. This introductory six-video lecture series will delve in to Chinese occult practices that syncretize Buddhism and Taoism.

Video 1 is an introduction to the course and the distinction between exoteric and esoteric Taoist/Buddhist practices. Video 2 covers the history of Taoist and Buddhist mysticism in China. Video 3 gets into the cultural practice of Taoist sorcery while Video 4 gives you a crash course into Eastern metaphysics. Finally, Videos 5 and 6 will give a primer on practicing or integrating Taoist magic and esoteric Buddhism into your path.

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Wu Xing: Five Movements 五行 · 오행

This is a crash course on the Wu Xing 五行, Five Dynamic Movements, though you’ll often see it called the Five Elements of East Asian metaphysics. These are five alchemical agents of change to describe how yin and yang qi create, destroy, and thus transform the physical world.

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Ba Gua: Eight Trigrams 八卦

This is a crash course on the Ba Gua 八卦, Eight Trigrams  of East Asian metaphysics. The eight trigrams are the eight elements formed by the Wu Xing, five forces of change, which we express as Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water, which is to say energy rises, expands, transforms, divides, disseminates, or it dissolves and disintegrates. These are the eight classical elements of Taoist metaphysics, explaining the fundamental material nature of all that you perceive.

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Brief Introduction to Esoteric or Tantric Buddhism

The video lecture is under 20 minutes and the companion write-up sets forth three practica for you to try out that will introduce you to basic principles in Buddhist-based folk magic.

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The Mantra That Placates Spirits: Asian Folk Magic Basics

An introduction to the Six Syllable Mantra, Om Mani Padme Hum 唵嘛呢叭咪吽, as a foundational practice for anyone seeking to learn Asian folk magic and Buddhist-influenced magical traditions across Asia. We explore the Mantra’s scriptural origins, its association with Kuan Yin, and its transmission through esoteric Buddhism into shamanic and folk ritual practices, applied in exorcism rituals, purification rites, healing, and also, to cultivate and establish a practitioner’s authority in spirit work.

A suggested Practicum is provided, though the lecture plus companion audio recording of the Mantra recitation is the starting ground for multiple additional exercises, from consecrating space with sound to empowering talismans and mala prayer beads. The Six Syllable Mantra is a shared magical language across many Buddhist, Taoist, shamanic, and spirit medium traditions in Asia, meaning this course is essential first training for anyone serious in the study.

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