 A number of scholars believe that these books were compiled in the first two decades of the 20th century, based on visions and revelation the founder of Daejongism, Na Cheol (1863-1916), claimed to have received

Daejongism is also well known for its teaching of breathing techniques, known in the West as part of the so-called internal alchemy (Neidan in Taoism).Daejongism's techniques focus on the '"sea of energy," which is also often referred to as the cinnabar field or the elixir field ("tanjón").The "tanjon" is a field rich in the vital energy Qi and the religion offers techniques to draw on this field and circulate the energy through the human body.These techniques became extremely popular in the 1970s and generated a new interest in Daejongism and its school of internal alchemy, known as Kich'ónmun.