Writing | Zachary Lui

Long-form essays and notes on classical Chinese medicine, qigong, ritual, and the territory where older traditions meet modern practice. Written for practitioners and serious lay readers, irregular, no editorial calendar.

Not medical advice. If something here touches what you're working with clinically, take it to your own practitioner.

The Magick That Never Left — a serialized book

A serialized book on classical Chinese medicine — what the standardized curriculum left out, where the deeper tradition persisted, and what practice looks like with the full toolkit still intact.

• Chapter 1: Chinese Medicine Is 75 Years Old — A mahjong reading that wasn't fortune-telling. Why the version of Chinese medicine you encounter is 75 years old, not 4,000. What got de-centered in the post-war reform. Why the magick never actually left.

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Podcast

Deeper Down the Rabbit Hole. Co-host with Andrieh Vitimus. Long-form conversations on contemporary esoteric practice, ritual, and tradition. ddtrh.com

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