February 13, 2006
Golden Rules
Here quoting Dr. Thom F. Cavalli, PH.D:
To further simplify the difficult process of transforming the lead of the natural self into the golden consciousness of the Divine Self, I offer the following fundamentals that may guide you in the work:
- Consciousness is the basis for all life. When we work with consciousness alchemically, we are transforming it into matter. Be sure to get it right: matter is the result, not the cause of consciousness.
- We all have lead at the center of our being, but in it are found the seeds for making gold. Generate the gold. Greet everyone silently (or openly) with the salutation, "Namaste," the god within me honors the god within you.
- We all evolve and individuate and this is our destined purpose for having been born into this reality. Forgive those who are unconscious and surrender to those who have gone farther than you.
- We are all one and many emanations of the One Thing. Spirit and manner are only two aspects of this supreme reality. See with your middle eye.
- The act of transforming reality gives meaning to our lives, to the world and the universe—simultaneously!
- The time to act is now. The present is the portal to infinity. It is where everything comes together, and therefore can be transmuted. Be fierce, be ready to live in this presence. Life is a paradox that can only be understood through the imaginal mind. It is a trick and a treat. Imagine That!
From Alchemical Psychology: Old Recipes for Living in a New World, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2002, p.188
Journal entry dated 30 Jan 2006
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December 31, 2005
Alchemy 101
Entry written 4 November 2005:
Quoting C.G. Jung--
To the reader who knows little or nothing of my work, a word of explanation may be helpful. Some thirty-five years ago I noticed to my amazement that European and American men and women coming to me for psychological advice were producing in their dreams and fantasies symbols similar to, and often identical with, the symbols found in the mystery religions of antiquity, in mythology, folklore, fairytales, and the apparently meaningless formulations of such esoteric cults as alchemy. Experience showed, moreover, that these symbols brought with them new energy and new life to the people to whom they came.
From long and careful comparison and analysis of these products of the unconscious I was led to postulate a 'collective unconscious,' a source of energy and insight into the depth of the human psyche which has operated in and through man from the earliest periods of which we have records.
In this present study of alchemy I have taken a particular example of symbol-formation, extending in all over some seventeen centuries, and have subjected it to intensive examination, linking it at the same time with an actual series of dreams recorded by a modern European not under my direct supervision and having no knowledge of what the symbols appearing in the dreams might mean. It is by such intensive comparisons as this (and not one but many) that the hypothesis of the collective unconscious--of an activity in the human psyche making for the spiritual development of the individual human being--may be scientifically established.
from Psychology and Alchemy, "Prefatory Note to the English Edition," by C.G. Jung
(Bollingen Series XX, vol.12, 2nd edition, Princeton Univ. Press, 1968)
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