Transformation of psyche has been dealt with in both eastern and western alchemy. Chinese alchemy had a fundamental predisposition of the existence of complete state that one stayed before birth. This condition of human psyche at birth or during infancy was the starting point as well as the ultimate goal in the alchemical process. It means the unified oneness of psyche before the psychological birth of the ego that may be possible after differentiation to be independent. Ancient chinese alchemists recognised it as conscious one, not as unconscious. Therefore, the ego pursues the state without ego through the alchemical training to seek the unification with the unconsciousness carefully. It leads to transcendental psychic state that stays over the ego. While its base was at the internal experience of a individual, chinese alchemists pursued the unified oneness of psyche in a real life, Muguk(9jO namely state with opposition, not the life after death.
Process in chinese alchemy were backward movement or regression to follow the teaching to come back to the state of the human psyche before birth. These were expressed ´Hoekwang(M)U, ´Yeonhwa(lAj, and ´Hwandan(~!wf´})´ in the books of alchemy. Ultimate place to reach through these methods was ´Gyu()´ where the fetus played. ´Gyu()´ is equivalent to the uterus. Combination of a posterior Eight Trigrams Gam(lk) and Li( W) can be regarded as a expression of all the alchemical processes. Substantially speaking, there are Yang concealed in the middle of the a posterior Eight Trigrams Gam(1k), and Yin concealed in the middle of the a posterior Eight Trigrams LiO. Yang in Gam(tk) has to fill up Yin in LiO, so that
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