Alchemy of the Soul

Alchemy of the Soul
Author: Martin Lowenthal
Publisher: Nicolas-Hays, Inc.
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2004-10-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0892545909

Life without myth, the vital force of archetypal experiences, is life filled with maladies, neuroses, addictions, and disease. Alchemy of the Soul retells the myth of Eros and Psyche to help readers reconnect mind and relatedness to find wholeness and deep meaning. Author Martin Lowenthal describes how the story of Eros and Psyche illustrates the alchemical process of marrying soul and matter so that life can be lived with more joy, meaning, and a tangible sense of divine love. The book is divided into three parts: • Part 1 is a beautiful retelling of the myth of Eros and Psyche. • Part 2 examines the power of myth and alchemy and shows how spiritual alchemy can restore and transform the soul. • Part 3 is an initiation into the alchemical mysteries using myth as mentor. Lowenthal writes, "The story assails the defenses of our mind and our reactive habits and seeks to wrest a victory for life and growth from the inertia of daily habits and confusion. It initiates us into a world far more vibrant, rich, and nourishing than the one we knew in childhood and naively, yet regressively, settle for. In this sense, story reveals what happens as we attempt to spread our emotional wings in the developmentally confining domain of our childhood home and community and what it takes to make something significant of ourselves in ways that feed the future. As guests of the story, we discover the larger sacred garden in which we emerge as a unique and beautiful flower in a bed of exquisite blossoms, each one unique and essential." Alchemy of the Soul takes alchemy from the realm of the esoteric and places it in practical terms of story—terms that anyone can understand, value, and use as a guide to life.

Personal Alchemy

Personal Alchemy
Author: Amber Wolfe
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide Limited
Total Pages: 546
Release: 1993
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780875428901

Participate in the creation of your own personal and powerful system of healing magick. Contains the secrets of using color and light "Rays" combined with the art of active imagery to personally experience the alchemy of positive self-transformation and empowerment. Explore the alchemical properties of 21 different healing Rays in depth while actively participating in life-changing exercises.

Everything Is Here to Help You

Everything Is Here to Help You
Author: Matt Kahn
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2018-06-05
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1401954960

Everything Is Here to Help You offers an emotionally supportive way to shift out of the inner war of ego, and into the illuminated presence of your soul. In this book, spiritual teacher and intuitive Matt Kahn redefines the spiritual path for the modern-day seeker, and offers original, innovative ways to resolve fear, unravel judgments, and learn how to view life from a clear, expanded perspective. By redefining our understanding of the spiritual journey from the point of view of the soul, Matt breathes fresh life into all aspects of the healing journey to usher in a revolutionary and loving approach to personal growth. Each chapter highlights Matt’s most cutting-edge teachings and loving wisdom. From learning how to unravel blame by exploring the four stages of surrender, to providing step-by-step energy clearings and recited activations to amplify the power of your consciousness, this book offers a clear road map to explore the magic, mysteries, and miracles that reside in every heart. This book also includes engaging questions to contemplate, as well as energetically encoded mantras to offer readers a direct experience of our unlimited spiritual potential.

Transformation - the Alchemy of Grace

Transformation - the Alchemy of Grace
Author: Carol Simons
Publisher: BalboaPress
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1452503680

For you who are seeking the very truth of your being, you will not find it in this book. Neither will you find it in other books nor will you find it in teachers. Books and teachers are only instrumental to point you in the direction you wish to take at that time. This book does a little more than point; it arouses the Truth within your Being. We all make choices based on the information we have, when this information is Truth that cannot be denied we can be bold in our choice, as we know it is right. It is in making the choice to follow our souls call that we become transformed by the alchemy of grace. This grace is the grace of the oneness to which we all are.

ALCHEMY

ALCHEMY
Author: Jay Ramsay
Publisher: Archive Publishing
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2017-02-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781906289300

Alchemy is a path of self-knowledge, unique in the Western tradition, vitally relevant for the modern world. It's symbols lie deep in the collective unconscious, in the world of dreams and imagery: the practices of alchemy are rooted in an understanding of the oneness of spirit and matter through which we celebrate our sexuality and spirituality.

The Alchemy of Inner Work

The Alchemy of Inner Work
Author: Lorie Eve Dechar
Publisher: Weiser Books
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2020-07-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1633411591

“My sincere hope is that everyone will read this treasure trove of essential inner knowledge. This book is a magnificent accomplishment." -- Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit Alchemy is the science of transformation—how to change one thing into something else. In The Alchemy of Inner Work, Dechar and Fox examine how illness, suffering, and dis-ease—the “lead” of our lives—can become the “gold” of our authentic selves, and the key to good health and well-being. Drawing on traditional Chinese medicine, Eastern and Western alchemical traditions, Kabbalah, and Jungian psychology—plus case studies from working with patients—the authors provide hands-on insights for bringing “the soul of medicine” back into our lives. The book includes: A simple introduction to the ancient practices and principles alchemy How the alchemical model offers a profoundly new path to true health and well-being An array of practices for removing the barriers that block our own healing energy An invitation to alchemical “dream work” as a support on the path of healing

The Emerald Tablet

The Emerald Tablet
Author: Dennis William Hauck
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 464
Release: 1999-03-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1101157186

The Emerald Tablet—an ancient document that contains the essence of the alchemical teachings—has had an important influence on many Western spiritual and religious traditions. Ostensibly concerned with turning base metals into gold, alchemy was in fact dedicated to transforming the lead of self into the gold of spirit. This brilliant history of alchemy traces its sources back to ancient Egypt, and presents alchemy as a useful, practical system of self-transformation. Each of the seven steps of alchemical transformation is explained, with hands-on techniques and exercises, treating alchemy as a living discipline for achieving a spiritual awakening.

Transformation of the Psyche

Transformation of the Psyche
Author: Joseph L. Henderson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2004-06-02
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135444587

Written by Joseph L. Henderson, one of the first generation of Jungian analysts, and Dyane N. Sherwood, a practising analyst, this book is a striking and unique contribution to the resurgence of interest in alchemy for its way of representing the phenomenology of creative experience. Transformation of the Psyche is organized around 22 illuminated paintings from the early Renaissance alchemical manuscript the Splendor Solis, and is further illustrated by over 50 colour figures. The images of the Splendor Solis are possibly the most beautiful and evocative alchemical paintings to be found anywhere, and they are widely known to students of alchemy. Jung reproduced several Splendor Solis images in his works, yet prior to this book no one has explored the symbolism of the paintings as a series in relation to the process of depth psychological transformation. This book is the first scholarly study of the paintings in their entirety, and of the mythological and historical allusions contained within the images. Transformation of the Psyche does not simply explain or analyze the pictures, but invites the reader to participate in the creative and transforming process evoked by these images. Transformation of the Psyche is a truly unique book that will be of immense value and interest to analysts and psychotherapists, as well as scholars of mediaeval and renaissance intellectual history and students of spiritual disciplines.

Embodying Osiris

Embodying Osiris
Author: Thom F Cavalli
Publisher: Quest Books
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2013-08-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0835630501

The modern Western movement to embrace Eastern spiritual traditions usually stops with India and the Orient. Westerners have yet to discover the wisdom that dates back even further to ancient Egypt. With a Jungian perspective, clinical psychologist Dr. Thom F. Cavalli plumbs that wisdom through the myth of Osiris, the green-skinned Egyptian god of vegetation and the Underworld. As no one else has done, Cavalli draws on Osiris’s death and resurrection as a guide to spiritual transformation. The myth represents the joining of the conscious and the unconscious, the light and the dark, life and death, and shows how to live our temporal existence in service to and anticipation of eternal life. Cavalli sees the ancient art of alchemy — which attempted to turn lead into gold — as the key. The alchemical recipe "solve et coagula" (solution and coagulation) encoded in the myth describes the integration of all parts of a person and the method for achieving an experience of immortality in life and eternal life after death. The Osiris myth thus provides a model for the contemporary quest for individuation, the Jungian term for integrating ego and self, body and soul, in the process of becoming whole.