Magic Alchemy 101

[Janus]

Alchemy is concept of exchange - you can't get gold without sacrificing lead.

Symbolically, this means that you can't become immortal without sacrificing life. Now, for most who read the alchemical texts literally, where it speaks of imbibing poison like mercury, they would state that alchemists were advocating suicide and giving up the physical body in order to be given a spiritual one. "They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb." And while with the right preparation this indeed would accomplish the desired effect...there is thankfully a better way.

The first step you need to take is to learn how to astral project. This is the practice of projecting the subconscious into the conscious world while in a state of lucid dreaming. People have astral projected from locations in the east and west coasts of the Unites States and met in a designated location, had a conversation for ten minutes...and then woke up and rang each other the next day and both have been able to remember what the other one had said as if they had been there physically.

That's the easy part. And if you've ever tried to astral project, you'd know it's not easy at all.

The next stage is...you have to do what you can only do in astral projection...and descend into the darkness of death. But instead of your conscious self dying, it is going to be your subconscious self. Obviously, you can't take a whole bunch of painkillers when in the astral plane and have them do anything that you don't want to have happen, so it is going to be a symbolic death. Anubis, the keeper of the gates, takes your hand and opens a large, ornate door that reveals a stairway leading into pitch black emptiness. And he begins to lead you down those steps, the torch he is holding beginning to flicker with every step, the bright light slowly fading. Feeling your body weaken as you descend the spiral deep, deep into the earth...the inky blackness...the feeling of absolute nothingness...peace...freedom from feeling anything at all...giving up completely.

That's the second most easy part. Most people just fall asleep at that point and then wake up the next day...because that's what the subconscious is conditioned to do with death. You don't remember what happens when you die because it's hidden from the both the subconscious and conscious mind - it's in the supraconscious. Even those who experience NDEs are only experiencing the transition states between life and death...they aren't actually experiencing death itself.

But we don't want to fall asleep. So it's at this point that we need a trigger. You remember the movie Inception? We need a 'kick' - something that is going to bring us out of the deep sleep we've fallen into and back into a lucid dreaming state. Whether that be with an alarm after a few hours, or better yet, by applying an low electrical current to the frontal lobe - between 25 and 40Hz (let's say 33 Hz cause it sounds mystic and shit).

It's at this point where you need to have the awareness, not that you have been resurrected and are on earth...but that you have actually died and are ascending from the Earth...past the Moon...past Mars, Jupiter, Saturn....all the way past Pluto....and into the inky blackness that exists between worlds.

Except, it's not inky...that's just an ethereal curtain of reality....and behind that curtain...you find your spirit body waiting for you.

The spirit body...which no matter your gender, is always female, is shocked. She can feel something is wrong, that you're not supposed to be there. But since she belongs to you, and is a part of you, she cannot send you back. Your spirit is pure love. It is at this moment you can talk to your spirit and ask her all the questions you ever wanted to know about why certain things in your life went the way they did, what you're supposed to be achieving on the physical plane in your current life, what your soul purpose is etc.

Once you've listened to what she has to say...there are two things you can do. Either return back to your body...or perform what alchemists call the Chemical Wedding. Which is the sacred marriage of the body and spirit.

"The chemical wedding is the perfect union of creative will or power (male) with wisdom (female) to produce pure love (the child, the Stone)’. The chemical or chymical wedding represents the unification of opposites as these are figured within alchemical imagery: sun and moon, king and queen, red and white, sulphur (fire and air) and argent vive (earth and water). The Philosopher’s Stone, symbolised as the ‘rebis’ or hermaphrodite or androgyne, ‘is the perfect integration of male and female energies’."

Whichever way you want to achieve this is up to you. Bear in mind that your spirit and your body aren't meant to be in the one vessel, so it has to be a symbolic manifestation of love that produces the child that is the Philosopher's Stone. This is a union of male and female - the wedding described in Revelation: “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.”

Once this union has been consummated, and your spirit is now dwelling within your body (and vice versa)...it is time to return back to Earth...back through the ethereal curtain...and back to your bed.

Achieve that...and you will be immortal. Why? Because at death, the spirit calls the soul back home to rest before sending it back to live another life. But once the spirit is contained within your physical body...the soul will always be called back to the body. And since the spirit cannot be destroyed...neither can the body.

Of course, then you've got the whole problem that nothing you do really matters - time is immaterial in a plane that is based in material, so it's basically like sentencing yourself to the worst prison imaginable. Maybe if you were an emperor or a king it would be worth the trouble, but in this world? Well, you've probably seen Highlander right? This is why alchemy was called the Royal Art. It's really for when you think 'man, I'd love to live this life for eternity'.

 

[Procrastinator35]

I find the whole notion of the alchemy of the soul altogether fascinating.....The process of changing the composition of one's soul from a base, reflective metal, into a more refined solid one that has a mettle all of it's own, has always struck a chord with me.

Robert Bly in his work, 'Iron John' speaks of this very process, when discussing the initiation practises of ancient cultures, of turning boys into men. This was done via the removal of the boy from the mother's sphere of influence & an initiation into the sacred male space of the male sphere.

The process is always a sharp, traumatic & acute one, of a cutting-off - so to speak - from one's previous world/life, into a newer more adult world.

 

[Janus]

I find the whole notion of the alchemy of the soul altogether fascinating.....The process of changing the composition of one's soul from a base, reflective metal, into a more refined solid one that has a mettle all of it's own, has always struck a chord with me.

Robert Bly in his work, 'Iron John' speaks of this very process, when discussing the initiation practises of ancient cultures, of turning boys into men. This was done via the removal of the boy from the mother's sphere of influence & an initiation into the sacred male space of the male sphere.

The process is always a sharp, traumatic & acute one, of a cutting-off - so to speak - from one's previous world/life, into a newer more adult world.

Alchemy is the key to everything, IMO.

I made a post in the Personal Experiences thread about how each of the planets in astronomy has a direct link to their alchemical metals, and what the reasoning behind them is. There is a shadow side and a light side to everything, and the alchemist knows that you need both, but you also need have them separated so you are fully aware of what drives you and aren't controlled by it. The destruction of the subconscious, or rather, to allow the subconscious into the conscious mind.

 

[Procrastinator35]

Alchemy is the key to everything, IMO.

I made a post in the Personal Experiences thread about how each of the planets in astronomy has a direct link to their alchemical metals, and what the reasoning behind them is. There is a shadow side and a light side to everything, and the alchemist knows that you need both, but you also need have them separated so you are fully aware of what drives you and aren't controlled by it. The destruction of the subconscious, or rather, to allow the subconscious into the conscious mind.

Absolutely....The union of opposites & the ability of one's consciousness to hold seemingly contradictory & paradoxical truths without judging or discounting either away, as is the ego's want, leads on to the outward growth & expansion of one's psychic awareness.

Jung also refers to this process as the transcendent principle.....Of the union of the sub-conscious reality of the body (The psyche) with that of the conscious mind (will).

At the very end of the process of letting go of the illusion of rational control, a kind of divine madness comes in, enters & takes a hold of our being...It is only at that juncture of crossing-over, that one fully recognises that the conscious rational mind is but one aspect of the entirety that makes up our existential being....That it is rather, wholly subsumed by the primordial universal principle that encompasses both the irrational & rational aspects of our being, into something altogether far greater & bigger than ourselves....The universal soul.

Of course, this all requires a full surrender to the powers that be, beyond our ego delusions of control......Not an easy process at all in our current world of full-on materialist delusion.

The denial of the spiritual world on behalf of a human spirit itself, is truly the devils work.

 

[Janus]

Absolutely....The union of opposites & the ability of one's consciousness to hold seemingly contradictory & paradoxical truths without judging or discounting either away, as is the ego's want, leads on to the outward growth & expansion of one's psychic awareness.

Jung also refers to this process as the transcendent principle.....Of the union of the sub-conscious reality of the body (The psyche) with that of the conscious mind (will).

At the very end of the process of letting go of the illusion of rational control, a kind of divine madness comes in, enters & takes a hold of our being...It is only at that juncture of crossing-over, that one fully recognises that the conscious rational mind is but one aspect of the entirety that makes up our existential being....That it is rather, wholly subsumed by the primordial universal principle that encompasses both the irrational & rational aspects of our being, into something altogether far greater & bigger than ourselves....The universal soul.

Of course, this all requires a full surrender to the powers that be, beyond our ego delusions of control......Not an easy process at all in our current world of full-on materialist delusion.

The denial of the spiritual world on behalf of a human spirit itself, is truly the devils work.

You should read the book I'm reading. It's called Embodying Osiris and it's by a Jungian psychologist named Thom Cavalli. In it, he goes through the myth of Osiris as being a step by step guide of the process of ego-death and being reborn into the divine.

The Egyptians had 9 parts to their soul:

1. akh - the divine substance of the human soul
2. sekhem - the energy pattern of the divine spirit
3. ib and haty - the territory of the heart
4. khat - the soul's container, that which decays
5. shuit - the living shadow, proof of reality
6. ren - the magic of your name, divine identity
7. ba - the you whom only you can know
8. ka - the you as others know you
9. sahu - the natural boundary of the psychic self

Without the shadow of the shuit, nothing is real. "Whatever a person might lose in life, your shadow is proof that you cannot lose yourself."

However, there is a second type of shadow - sutekh. And this represents the bad habits that run counter to individuation and attempt to dissolve you into being defined by those habits...to corrupt the ego into something base and impure.

See, I don't think it's about surrender so much as about trust. You're not giving up and hoping for the best. You're giving up because you know the way you are now isn't going to get you where you want to go. It's something done with purpose and conviction, with full faith. I refer to the last words of Christ: "Father, into your hands I entrust my spirit."

 

[Procrastinator35]

Without the shadow of the shuit, nothing is real. "Whatever a person might lose in life, your shadow is proof that you cannot lose yourself."

However, there is a second type of shadow - sutekh. And this represents the bad habits that run counter to individuation and attempt to dissolve you into being defined by those habits...to corrupt the ego into something base and impure.

See, I don't think it's about surrender so much as about trust. You're not giving up and hoping for the best. You're giving up because you know the way you are now isn't going to get you where you want to go. It's something done with purpose and conviction, with full faith. I refer to the last words of Christ: "Father, into your hands I entrust my spirit."

I really like how you speak about the two-fold nature of the shadow & Yes....I feel it is directly pertinent to the possibility of both integration & dissolution of the soul.

When I did my Jungian thing back in my 30's, the very end process was a huge dream where I dove back into my own shadow, in finally fully owning & coming back into being in unison with my body....Of the union of both spirit & soul into a harmonious one-ness.

The notion of surrender I speak of, is more akin to the Shamballa warriors path....Which as you rightly say, encompasses full trust & indeed full faith....There is always a leap of faith involved when you are letting go of both delusions & illusions, as well as the removal of veils.

But Yes....It necessitates an acceptance of the universal beneficence of the great spirit & the natural human condition, quite apart from our social conventions & arbitrary constructions.

I also like how you refer to the spirit body as always feminine.....The Ancient Greek understanding of Medea (The median point) & crossing over between the 2 realms.....As I say to those I converse to about such things....The Grim Reaper was never masculine, she is fully feminine is the skeleton woman....As we become manifest through the feminine....As too the so-called 'ferry-man'.....Fully feminine is the chaos trip.

Of course, these archetypes have been tainted by our Judeo-Christian heritage, via their pathological fear of death & the feminine body....The Early Christian fathers have much to answer for with regards their contribution to the Western pathological split between mind/Body.....The entire gist of Modern Philosophy itself, even embraces that schism in Cartesian Dualism.....the so-called father of Modern Philosophy.....What I much rather refer to as the birth of the full split & schism of the western mind from it's own body.

 

[Procrastinator35]

Also Janus.

Have you happened across the works of the Italian Renaissance, Neo-Platonic philosopher in Marsilio Ficino per chance?

I notice you broaching the subject of astrology & such things in the Religious threads & thought you might be interested, if you haven't already come across him.

A very interesting character & what I'd refer to as a proper Doctor of the Soul.....And Yes, he even dabbled in alchemy, as any proper Soul Doctor would.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19476325-marsilio-ficino-on-the-alchemical-art

https://www.renaissanceastrology.com/ficino.html

 

[Janus]

Also Janus.

Have you happened across the works of the Italian Renaissance, Neo-Platonic philosopher in Marsilio Ficino per chance?

I notice you broaching the subject of astrology & such things in the Religious threads & thought you might be interested, if you haven't already come across him.

A very interesting character & what I'd refer to as a proper Doctor of the Soul.....And Yes, he even dabbled in alchemy, as any proper Soul Doctor would.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19476325-marsilio-ficino-on-the-alchemical-art

https://www.renaissanceastrology.com/ficino.html

I haven't yet...but at the moment I'm playing this game called the Talos Principle. It's your basic puzzle game - move object x to a certain location to activate a switch so you can get object y - but the more fascinating part of it is the mythology. It's extremely philosophical - here's a screenshot from it - it's very alchemical in nature, with the trials being the 'road to Aaru':

 

[Janus]

And here is the last entry from that particular log series...notice how it talks about ba - the you whom only you can know - and the ka - the you as others know you - being united to create the akh - the divine substance of the human soul.

The soul is not some thing that we just have. It is US. If we strive to be true to ourselves - and make our habits reinforce our will rather than work against it - then we have no fear of judgement from anyone because how can we be judged for being who we are? Does the wolf apologise for killing its prey? But on the flip side, does the wolf kill needlessly, accumulating food to hold dominion over the other wolves in his pack?

It's not about being a saint. It's about accepting your own subconscious - the you that only you know - and blending it with the conscious - the you as others know you.

 

[Procrastinator35]

And here is the last entry from that particular log series...notice how it talks about ba - the you whom only you can know - and the ka - the you as others know you - being united to create the akh - the divine substance of the human soul.

The soul is not some thing that we just have. It is US. If we strive to be true to ourselves - and make our habits reinforce our will rather than work against it - then we have no fear of judgement from anyone because how can we be judged for being who we are? Does the wolf apologise for killing its prey? But on the flip side, does the wolf kill needlessly, accumulating food to hold dominion over the other wolves in his pack?

It's not about being a saint. It's about accepting your own subconscious - the you that only you know - and blending it with the conscious - the you as others know you.

Unconditional love & acceptance for ourselves & our existence, is most certainly the goal of all alchemy of the soul....It is also what the Greeks truly meant by the inscription on the walls at Delphi....'Know thyself & nothing to excess'.....For that Golden mean, that middle way, is the thread through which we can attain eternal happiness of the soul & be as one with our cosmic fates....Which is ultimately death......As Socrates rightly proclaimed: "Life is but a preparation for death."

Modernity is all about avoiding the facing of that reality & inevitability.....Our culture has lost all touch with the initiation rites & traditions of our forebears.....Your own 'Reed fields of Osiris' above minds one of the Elysian Fields in the Ancient Greek corpus....However, in order to attain those golden fields of eternity of the soul, a truly inner disposition, one must turn one's soul into gold itself.....For only then can you resonate with that reality....And that means fully facing & owning the inner Daemon within ourselves, in all 7 dimensions.....It means we must 'go down' into ourselves & become miners for that gold within ourselves.....The key to the light lies hidden in the darkness of our psyches & in believing that it is indeed there in the first place, for the Daemon will not give the gold up without trying to trick you via the ego (The false self of delusion.)

 

[Total Power]

Alchemy is the key to everything, IMO.

I made a post in the Personal Experiences thread about how each of the planets in astronomy has a direct link to their alchemical metals, and what the reasoning behind them is. There is a shadow side and a light side to everything, and the alchemist knows that you need both, but you also need have them separated so you are fully aware of what drives you and aren't controlled by it. The destruction of the subconscious, or rather, to allow the subconscious into the conscious mind.

True. Jesus taught love, non-violence, non-materialism and alchemy ("al/el" means God and "khem" means fusion). Like Buddah, Moses, Hermes, Krishna et al before him, he taught meditational practices that were designed to reunite the being, with God/Nirvana. There might be other ways to do it, but meditation really works for me.

Eliminate the past and the future and what are you left with? An eternal!

It is like Plato's Theory of Forms. We know how a perfect circle works, but one cannot exist in this realm. We can see approximations of the perfet circle, but they are never ever actually a perfect circle. As is the case with eternity. This "imaginary time" is situated along the same tangent to the universe that the perfect, or imaginary, circle is stiuated within. It is along the same line where higher levels of consciousness exist. It is the same line where absolute good exists.

Perhaps the closest person scientific minded folk and spiritually minded folk have in common, is Carl Jung. He dared to push past the personal subconscious, to identify the collective unconscious, which represents a universal set of symbols which are common accross all races.

Initially, Jung thought that it was simply hereditary and due to the consistency of symbols in all humans of all races, probably pre-dated human evolution.

Jung then postulated that we do not have a personal unconscious, but rather we share a universal unconsciousness. An analogy would be to view your consciousness as the tip of an iceberg which we see, your subconscious as the part of the iceberg under water and the universal unconsciousness as the vast ocean in which it sits. This is hard to fathom for those who think our bodies are responsible for everything we perceive, but we are never not not connected to the Universe/Everything!

So my longwinded point is, that there is absolutely knowldege which you can obtain via inner exploration. That is not belief or faith. It is personalised knowledge.

We can argue over the validity of the personal knowledge with atheists, but not until the non-practicing folk, start practicing on themselves!

 

[Janus]

Another night, another alchemical dream.

This one involved using an iron hammer to drive an iron chisel deep enough so that I could lift a concrete slab out of the ground. Underneath the slab - which was a tomb - was a sword with a gold blade (impractical to say the least), and copper coins.

The interpretation is that I need to be determined (iron - Mars) to dig into my subconscious (the tomb of Osiris) to realise the potential of Self (gold - Sun), which will grant me abundance in my relationships (copper - Venus).

It was a symbolic representation of the path I am on.

The Path of the Alchemist is one of both self discovery and self destruction. It is about harmonising our mind to be in sync with our heart - the joining of both ka and ba - to create a divine spirit. It requires us to confront what it is that drives us and refine it down to its most basic form:

Love?
Hate?
Power?
Control?
Recognition?

There are more obviously - but whatever it is, generally our motivation can be dissolved into a cardinal desire. For example, those that feel weak or have been abused tend to reciprocate that loss of power or become enslaved to it, instead of rising above it.

This is why it’s not an easy path. “Exert yourself vigorously to get through the narrow gate.”

The universal consciousness - what Rosicrucians call the world soul - is the path of destruction. Not death, but loss of individuality. What the alchemist seeks is harmonisation with the world soul while still maintaining that sense of Self. And to do that, you must know both yourself and your purpose.

The question people should be asking isn’t “Why are we here?”

It’s “What can I do to make the world a better place?”

 

[Total Power]

This is why it’s not an easy path. “Exert yourself vigorously to get through the narrow gate.”

The universal consciousness - what Rosicrucians call the world soul - is the path of destruction. Not death, but loss of individuality. What the alchemist seeks is harmonisation with the world soul while still maintaining that sense of Self. And to do that, you must know both yourself and your purpose.

The question people should be asking isn’t “Why are we here?”

It’s “What can I do to make the world a better place?”

What you think might happen? Nuclear war? I believe this is the age of materialism and physicalism. We have forgotten what "life" is and we assume, our persona is "us" and more money and power will make us happy. Barely anyone enters through the narrow gate anymore if at all. This will end badly for our planet.

 

[Janus]

What you think might happen? Nuclear war? I believe this is the age of materialism and physicalism. We have forgotten what "life" is and we assume, our persona is "us" and more money and power will make us happy. Barely anyone enters through the narrow gate anymore if at all. This will end badly for our planet.

To understand what will happen you have to understand what has already taken place.

Your etymology of alchemy is the modern definition, based on the Greek alchemia - the art of transmuting metals. (I misled you before, though not on purpose. I’ve done more reasearch - it’s the Lah in Al-lah that means god - that is Jah/Lah/Yah. Which makes sense since both the Jews and the Arabs worship the same god of Abraham. Al just means “the”, like you said...my mistake. Apologies.)

But the ancient etymology comes from Egypt. You see, Egypt was called that by the Greeks. The ancient Egyptians called it Khemet/Kemet - which means “the black land” or “land of the black people”.

So the ancient etymology of Alchemy is “the black art”.

Now, this gives all sorts of demonic connotations...but that’s not what the Egyptians viewed themselves as when they were calling themselves black people. They were using black in the symbolism of the planet Saturn/lead - that of a life of impermanence and imperfection. Their entire life was based around the whim of the material world - no matter how fervently they prayed to their gods, it didn’t seem to matter. That is why they were so enamoured with the concept of the afterlife...they saw the physical as merely a testing ground for the spiritual realm...a preparatory state before one could ascend to the field of reeds.

They didn’t just believe in life after death - their entire way of life centred around that concept. And their civilisation lasted for thousands of years, because they were connected to spirit.

Everything in Egypt was about ascension from the physical to the spiritual. Even the pyramids represented this - the base being a square where the four key elements - earth, fire, water and air - were rooted in the physical plane at the points, while the pyramid ascended to join all four elements into a fifth element, the capstone - which is spirit.

Now, if you look at the world today, you can see that none of the pyramids have their capstones anymore. And that’s symbolic of the fact that the world has severed itself from spirit. It is no coincidence that the symbol for the Illuminati was the Eye of Horus on the capstone of a pyramid. Nor is it a coincidence that the US dollar has a pyramid with the eye in the capstone.

In essence, we have elevated money - the symbol of the physical world - into the position that was held by spirit. So instead of reaching up toward the heavens and celebrating the best of humanity, we drive down into more and more depravity. Our pyramids are inverted.

What I see is a destruction of the world system as we know it - a complete reset of everything. Not physical destruction, but a mental and spiritual one. A new universal religion that doesn’t use belief as an excuse for poor behaviour - one where faith is displayed by our actions and how we treat others; a universal government that rules in the best interests of the people it serves rather than just in the best interests of what will get it elected; and most important of all, a universal brotherhood of mankind where the success of others is celebrated and everyone acknowledges each other as having contributed towards that success.

I don’t think we are heading for a dark age. I think we are heading for a golden one. Universal ascension.

That’s the dream of an alchemist

 

[Run n Spread]

2 weird things happened to me last night.

1) Was dreaming. I was about to drop a bomb when a warning siren went off as in don't. At that point I realised I was lucid dreaming (if you can call it that but I was dreaming) but realised I had a form of control so I took off. As in I flew but without any real direction (astro travel for want of a better world) but stopped dead and woke up stone dead alive as I had read that very day that when you die (am referring Janus the above post for relevance) you are not meant to follow the light etc as we are trapped here and we are meant to live one life here (we are not meant to re in carnate) and go to the next universe. For example you don't finish school and go through all the shit only to repeat it????

2) From that point on I wasn't allowed to/couldn't go to sleep. I'd drift off and off only to have to get a drink/a loud noise/etc something to wake me.

So while I stumbled upon this today it left me confused. Yes everyone wants to obtain purpose but there are a lot of influences around.

Also there are 2 types of light (apparently) Lucifer false light vs the angels..............................But then I was told (as in dreamt) Lucifer controls all on Earth so if everything is under control we really should gtfo and go to the next universe.

 

[Janus]

2 weird things happened to me last night.

1) Was dreaming. I was about to drop a bomb when a warning siren went off as in don't. At that point I realised I was lucid dreaming (if you can call it that but I was dreaming) but realised I had a form of control so I took off. As in I flew but without any real direction (astro travel for want of a better world) but stopped dead and woke up stone dead alive as I had read that very day that when you die (am referring Janus the above post for relevance) you are not meant to follow the light etc as we are trapped here and we are meant to live one life here (we are not meant to re in carnate) and go to the next universe. For example you don't finish school and go through all the shit only to repeat it????

2) From that point on I wasn't allowed to/couldn't go to sleep. I'd drift off and off only to have to get a drink/a loud noise/etc something to wake me.

So while I stumbled upon this today it left me confused. Yes everyone wants to obtain purpose but there are a lot of influences around.

Also there are 2 types of light (apparently) Lucifer false light vs the angels..............................But then I was told (as in dreamt) Lucifer controls all on Earth so if everything is under control we really should gtfo and go to the next universe.

1) While this is true, there is a purpose for this world that we are in. It is a testing ground to ensure that we are ready to move on to the next phase of our evolution.

2) Your mind is telling you that you aren't ready to ascend, so why are you thinking about not reincarnating? It is only when we reach enlightenment during our lifetime that we have the wisdom to break free of the shackles of the prison of mortality.

3) Lucifer, Mara...whatever you want to call him/her, everything is under his control because he is the god of the material plane. The change must be internal if you want to escape. Enlightenment isn't just a matter of knowing the path, but walking it too.

 

[Run n Spread]

2) Your mind is telling you that you aren't ready to ascend, so why are you thinking about not reincarnating? It is only when we reach enlightenment during our lifetime that we have the wisdom to break free of the shackles of the prison of mortality.
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Another weird one. After the standard dreams last night I half woke up but then floated off in another dream. Kind of aware I was in a dream. So I take off float high before passing a white light. Now you know when you dream/float/imagine you grasp snap images you can't hold onto. First image that came to me was an ancient babylonian desert like city but was upside down.

Then I float further away and pass a distinctive blue light. I am then met with a reflection of myself painted blue. (Now I don't know if this is somehow me in a different time or circumstance, me in reflection or just some dude who looks like me). After facing me/him for a few moments I float higher over women painted blue preparing a traditional Hindu/Buddist feast. (Place appeared to be in an Indian/Asian dessert somewhere). All food is traditional and natural (health but fruit and vegetables only). They were humming and working in unison. I float higher and there is a whole community working together. All chanting and working to the sound/vibration.

Now as I float even higher and higher and get a Birds Eye view and the community of people is shaped like a traditional Buddist or Hindu God (not sure not my background). Kind of like an old egyptian ISIS but not something different all together.

I then start to move away and shit gets weird. I think I need to wake and commit this to memory. Only I can't wake up. I have to wait a few minutes. When I do wake up I am in an old room of mine but totally refurbished. So I try to get up and walk around get my bearings. Can't. Then I get up for real but am wriggling round like some fish out of water. Then when I get still I don't recognise where I am. I think **** I shouldn't be here. Only to then realise I'm back in my room.

This seems like hours but I was up all night and checked my watch and only about 90-120 mins had passed. Did feel very rested thou.

 

[Janus]

Another weird one. After the standard dreams last night I half woke up but then floated off in another dream. Kind of aware I was in a dream. So I take off float high before passing a white light. Now you know when you dream/float/imagine you grasp snap images you can't hold onto. First image that came to me was an ancient babylonian desert like city but was upside down.

Then I float further away and pass a distinctive blue light. I am then met with a reflection of myself painted blue. (Now I don't know if this is somehow me in a different time or circumstance, me in reflection or just some dude who looks like me). After facing me/him for a few moments I float higher over women painted blue preparing a traditional Hindu/Buddist feast. (Place appeared to be in an Indian/Asian dessert somewhere). All food is traditional and natural (health but fruit and vegetables only). They were humming and working in unison. I float higher and there is a whole community working together. All chanting and working to the sound/vibration.

Now as I float even higher and higher and get a Birds Eye view and the community of people is shaped like a traditional Buddist or Hindu God (not sure not my background). Kind of like an old egyptian ISIS but not something different all together.

I then start to move away and shit gets weird. I think I need to wake and commit this to memory. Only I can't wake up. I have to wait a few minutes. When I do wake up I am in an old room of mine but totally refurbished. So I try to get up and walk around get my bearings. Can't. Then I get up for real but am wriggling round like some fish out of water. Then when I get still I don't recognise where I am. I think **** I shouldn't be here. Only to then realise I'm back in my room.

This seems like hours but I was up all night and checked my watch and only about 90-120 mins had passed. Did feel very rested thou.

Indigo souls are a symbol of spiritual awakening. Seeing yourself and others as one means you are being called to a higher purpose, to work toward the common goal of ascension to the divine.

In Egypt, they viewed their gods as being intrinsic to everything they did and the embodiment of the physical world. Cooperation creates harmony, and harmony creates the soul of the god that the people worship. It’s a symbiotic relationship.

Those who are secular in their beliefs neglect this orchestrated symphony of the divine, and as a result create music that is competing with the other musicians in the orchestra. Seeking to make their instrument louder than the others.

You should ask to speak to Anubis in your dreams. I’d be interested in what he has to show you.

 

[Janus]

Going back to the concept of alchemy being the process of working on and adjusting our own personality to change things we lack into abundance - there is the example of the man in China - Li Cheng-Yuen. He was born, according to Chinese military records, in 1677.

He died in 1933...age 256. The Chinese even have records that show that they sent him congratulatory well wishes on his 100th, 150th and 200th birthdays. He was over 7 feet tall, had been married 14 times, and had up to 180 children that were attributed to his marriages.

When asked what his secret was, he said that it was to have a quiet heart. Which brings us back to the concept of our hearts being weighed against the Feather of Truth by Anubis in the Hall of Judgement.

Perhaps the Philosopher's Stone of Alchemy was red in colour, not because it was a mineral...but because it was the human heart. Seeing the best in people, being optimistic, compassionate, loving, kind, gracious - all these things are the key to immortality, because those are the qualities your spirit reflects.

In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dec 7 2004 issue, an article was written on how Telomeres - which are the parts of our chromosomes that degenerate every time cells divide to renew our bodies - respond to life stress by eroding faster, thereby impairing DNA replication and accelerating aging.

What this means is this: the more time we spend in a safe space - meditation, relaxation, calmness - the longer we are going to live. That is why the death of the ego is so vital to the alchemists work, because it's only when we let go of our desires that we can achieve the calmness necessary to both achieve them and a higher state of being.

 

[Procrastinator35]

Going back to the concept of alchemy being the process of working on and adjusting our own personality to change things we lack into abundance - there is the example of the man in China - Li Cheng-Yuen. He was born, according to Chinese military records, in 1677.

He died in 1933...age 256. The Chinese even have records that show that they sent him congratulatory well wishes on his 100th, 150th and 200th birthdays. He was over 7 feet tall, had been married 14 times, and had up to 180 children that were attributed to his marriages.

When asked what his secret was, he said that it was to have a quiet heart. Which brings us back to the concept of our hearts being weighed against the Feather of Truth by Anubis in the Hall of Judgement.

Perhaps the Philosopher's Stone of Alchemy was red in colour, not because it was a mineral...but because it was the human heart. Seeing the best in people, being optimistic, compassionate, loving, kind, gracious - all these things are the key to immortality, because those are the qualities your spirit reflects.

In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dec 7 2004 issue, an article was written on how Telomeres - which are the parts of our chromosomes that degenerate every time cells divide to renew our bodies - respond to life stress by eroding faster, thereby impairing DNA replication and accelerating aging.

What this means is this: the more time we spend in a safe space - meditation, relaxation, calmness - the longer we are going to live. That is why the death of the ego is so vital to the alchemists work, because it's only when we let go of our desires that we can achieve the calmness necessary to both achieve them and a higher state of being.

The philosopher's stone is itself a paradox, for it is all about making the heart & one's soul weightless, in complete harmony & as one with the universal spirit....The philosopher's stone is in fact a 'touchstone' so to speak.....It's all about the notion of home is where the heart is.....It is metaphorical & therefore weightless.

 

[Janus]

The philosopher's stone is itself a paradox, for it is all about making the heart & one's soul weightless, in complete harmony & as one with the universal spirit....The philosopher's stone is in fact a 'touchstone' so to speak.....It's all about the notion of home is where the heart is.....It is metaphorical & therefore weightless.

Au contraire - science has discovered that the human heart actually has the capacity to exhibit a form of intelligence that responds to emotion and creates a connection with the mind. It’s not metaphorical. It is where we develop intuition from.

The mind seperate from the heart creates logic and rationalism. The heart separate from the mind creates emotion and sensationalism. Is it any wonder that the world is so messed up when we have a scale that is constantly teetering from one side to the other and exhibiting the extremes of both?

The mind connected to the heart establishes our connection to spirit. The mind is the ego. The heart is the self.

 

[Procrastinator35]

Au contraire - science has discovered that the human heart actually has the capacity to exhibit a form of intelligence that responds to emotion and creates a connection with the mind. It’s not metaphorical. It is where we develop intuition from.

The mind seperate from the heart creates logic and rationalism. The heart separate from the mind creates emotion and sensationalism. Is it any wonder that the world is so messed up when we have a scale that is constantly teetering from one side to the other and exhibiting the extremes of both?

The mind connected to the heart establishes our connection to spirit. The mind is the ego. The heart is the self.

I think you have mis-understood what I meant.

The philosophers stone is all about conjoining the 2 in delivering the human soul into a state of non-contradictory bliss.....Ergo, the philosophers stone is actually all about melting away any weight that we carry within our hearts.

 

[Janus]

I think you have mis-understood what I meant.

The philosophers stone is all about conjoining the 2 in delivering the human soul into a state of non-contradictory bliss.....Ergo, the philosophers stone is actually all about melting away any weight that we carry within our hearts.

Yes, that’s what I said originally - about the heart being weighed by Anubis against the Feather of Truth (hence the expression “a heart as light as a feather”)

“We claim the present as the pre-sent, as the hereafter
We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun
We are not afraid of the darkness, we trust that the moon shall guide us
We are determining the future at this very moment
We now know that the heart is the philosophers’ stone
Our music is our alchemy” – Saul Williams, Coded Language

 

[Janus]

The North American Indian tribe of the Cherokee have a word - Shante Ishta - which when translated means 'the single eye of the heart'. The Mayans, Incans and Aztecs also had a belief in a 'secret chamber of the heart'. This 'eye' does not judge right and wrong nor good and bad - which harks back to the eating of the Tree of Knowledge - but instead discerns what is true for us and what is not. When walking through the Hall of Judgement in the afterlife, the 42 questions that are asked of us are not asked in the context of whether we have done something bad...but whether we have walked with integrity to what our heart has told us. That is why it is the heart that is weighed, and nothing else.

Are you living in synchronicity with your heart and what it is telling you? If you are, you will never need to ask what the purpose of life is. You will already know.

 

[William Wonka]