"Heavenly Stems, Earthly Branches" - Master Zhongxian Wu & Damo Mitchell in conversation

Master Zhongxian Wu is the lineage holder of four different schools of Qigong and martial arts. While in China, he served as Director of the Shaanxi Province Association for Somatic Science and the Shaanxi Association for the Research of Daoist Nourishing Life Practices. He has now been living and teaching in the West for just over ten years.
Damo Mitchell has studied the martial, medical and spiritual arts of Asia since the age of four. His studies have taken him across the planet in search of authentic masters. He is the technical director of the Lotus Nei Gong School of Daoist Arts, and teaches Nei Gong in the UK and Sweden.
In this final instalment of their discussion, Masters Wu and Mitchell turn their attention to a fundamental aspect of Chinese philosophy which is often neglected in both Qigong practice and Chinese Medicine -- the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches.
Books by Master Wu:
Chinese Shamanic Cosmic Orbit Qigong
Esoteric Talismans, Mantras, and Mudras in Healing and Inner Cultivation
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Hidden Immortal Lineage Taiji Qigong
The Mother Form
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The 12 Chinese Animals
Create Harmony in your Daily Life through Ancient Chinese Wisdom
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Seeking the Spirit of The Book of Change
8 Days to Mastering a Shamanic Yijing (I Ching) Prediction System
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Vital Breath of the Dao
Chinese Shamanic Tiger Qigong - Laohu Gong
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By Damo Mitchell:
Daoist Nei Gong
The Philosophical Art of Change
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At the end are they talking about Pregadio's Can Tong Qi or is it another version?
I appreciate the earnestness of both speakers.
A book on stems & branches and the East/West interface is Katchmer's "Tao of Bioenergetics". You can tell from the title it is not a classical book! But an interesting survey of East/West philosophy. Published by YMAA press, a lot of reference made to Chia, Hua-Ching Ni and so on, but also Westerners from Hippocrates to Jung, and a good stems/branches explanation.

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The three versions from Pregadio (2011) are most deeply explanatory but there are a few other translations online, like from Siku Wang etc. which do not explain the content.