Alchemy
IS
the bizarre and irrational dreaming of an imbecile
(sooner or later we all pony up for a lottery ticket, no?)
Alchemy
IS
an ancient belief and practice which
can
dramatically change your life
(so can drinking, gambling, and shopping, no?)
kristo will perform an alchemical divination to help you learn the pertinent information you need to deal with the most serious question you have....
Within pages 200-213 of his autobiographical book, Memories, Dreams, Reflections...Jung relates an important personal dream and explains how he essentially stumbled upon the intimate connection between medieval alchemy...the spagyric arts...and his own work...analytical psychology....
Although it's not necessary to read the collected works of C.G.Jung (as I have) to grasp the underlying meaning of alchemy... the good doctor actually did the enormous work for us of sorting through the sometimes bizarre recipes and irrational images of the Opus Contra Naturam and made them understandable to the 20th century mind as powerful metaphors of psychological transformation.
To put it in absolute simplicity, Alchemy is the work (and practice) of seeing something essential that we never saw before...and allowing that vision to transform the way we think, feel and act in the world....
Alchemy becomes the work of paying attention to what is seriously important to us as individuals. The catch is that what we normally find to be seriously important may be completely off the mark. What we THINK of as most important and useful may actually be harmful. What seems reasonable may be deadly...and what looks trivial, annoying, useless or absurd may actually be the precise ingredient we need for wholeness...the key to our healing. This requires that we eventually look at everything from a completely fresh and creative perspective...and THAT takes a lot of work!
According to Jung...Individuation...the alchemical transformation of the individual...requires three essential ingredients...INSIGHT, ENDURANCE and ACTION...none of which come cheaply.
kristo can only offer a homeopathic dose of INSIGHT. The rest is up to you...but given this powerful ingredient...your personal process of transformation towards wholeness (individuation) becomes much less difficult....
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read one aspect of my take on alchemical symbolism in dreams at beyondmainstream.com...