Michael Winn

Not to be confused with Michael Winner.

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Michael Winn is an author and teacher most notable for his work with Mantak Chia. He is also known for his occult writings focused on Western mysticism and Kabbalah, especially for his attempts to harmonize Taoist and Kabbalistic practices.

Association with Mantak Chia

See also: Mantak Chia

Michael Winn, along with Eric Yudelove and Dennis Lewis, was part of a core group of Western esoteric students taught by Mantak Chia.^[1] Winn is the most notable of these students, going on to found the Healing Dao University in upstate New York and providing support for local centers in metropolitan areas throughout North America.^[2]

Seminars and teaching activity

Michael Winn adapted Chia's Healing Dao teachings with some differences in practice and philosophy. His annual summer retreat, which features Mantak Chia as an invited speaker, is very notable for the commercialized language in its brochure. The practices are promoted as helping to "profoundly improve sexual health" and claiming that practitioners "lose pounds permanently without dieting", for example.^[3]

Footnotes

1. ^ Daoist Alchemy in the West by Lee Iwrin
2. ^ Kohn (2008). Pg 221.
3. ^ Miller (2006). Pp. 268-69.

Bibliography

• Kohn, Livia. Chinese Healing Exercises: The Tradition of Daoyin. University of Hawaii Press, 2008. ISBN 0824832698.
• Miller, James. Chinese religions in contemporary society. ABC-CLIO, 2006. ISBN 1851096264.

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