"Mind Alchemy"

[Alchemica]

Merely bouncing off ideas - improvements/input welcome:

Everything IS Everything.

The Emerald Tablet

The Emerald Tablet of Hermes is the original source of Hermetic Philosophy and Alchemy. According to one legend, the text was originally carved by Hermes on tablets of emerald and placed in the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid of Cheops. While such stories are probably apocryphal, the document has been well known to scholars and occult philosophers since at least the 10th century.

Although the language of the original version is in doubt, it is through the Latin version reproduced here (along with our own English translation), that the Emerald Tablet rose to pre-eminent fame as a Key to the primary Mysteries of Nature.

Outwardly a recipe for the preparation of the Philosopher's Stone which may be used for the transmutation of the baser metals into Gold (the Sun refers to Gold in Alchemical terminology), it has always been clear to the Masters of the Alchemical Art that the process described was of far more universal application—in fact, it is nothing less than the Process of Change itself through which (in the words of Aristotle): "Nature strives towards Perfection."

http://www.tree.org/b1d.htm

Art and Science of the Alchemist Eric N. Peterson

"The material of the alchemist lies beyond his/her personality, looks, feelings, and thoughts. This deeper part of his/herself he/she might call "the essential self."

http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=1473062

http://members.tripod.com/Zero-Point/index.html

Whoever reflects on four things: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, and that which is after possibly? might not find everything... maybe there's something in more in 7... or 12...? Them?

 

zero-point.tripod.com/synqbl/synarachy.html

 

 

Ego Dramas?

http://www.brothermichael.org.uk/resources/soul.htm

The Problem of the SuperEgo

http://www.ch-freudien-be.org/Papers/Txt/Hoornaert-fc7.pdf

Freudian Defence Mechanisms

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_mechanism

Alchemy without too much other stuff to complicate it

http://www.rexresearch.com/alchemy5/regardie.pdf

Jung on the chakras

http://www.lightmind.com/jung/seminar/chakras.html

"The Diamond Body"

 

Hour glass Nebula (Hubble)

"The Sun is the father and the Moon it's mother"

"As above, so below"

 

 

The Tree of Life (celtic)

 

SOURCE: evolvefish.com

 

 

The Tree of Life encodes a dynamic system of transformation of the individual at the physical, emotional, conceptual, and spiritual levels. Rather than a hierarchical "ladder" to be climbed, the Tree is a stratified image of the holistic nature of existence which interpenetrates as a fluid exchange of energy at every level. More subtle "planes" are simply more deeply enfolded aspects of reality--hidden domains of order creating variables in our ordinary existence.

More than the sum of its parts, the Tree represents a multidimensional web of processes emanating in all directions by the conjoint macro-micro co-evolution of all systems. This web exalts the pure intensification of life. The secret of the universe is that it is alive.

http://members.tripod.com/Zero-Point/index.html

Spiral of life?

 

 

Solve et Coagula - "dissolve and coagulate"

The blue "sun" was said in alchemy to occur after a certain step, the blackness being replaced with new colours... Sort of looks like the diamond body if you think about it.

 

Source: nasa.gov

 

 

-blackening (-putrefaction): corruption, dissolution, individuation,

-albedo, whitening: purification, burnout of impurity; the moon, "female"

-citrinitas, yellowing: spiritualisation, enlightenment; the sun, "male"

-rubedo, reddening: unification of man with God (can see God as the source of all energy, the non-ego, keep it spiritual), unification of the limited with the unlimited.

Alchemists strove for total union of opposites in symbolic form. This may be viewed metaphorically as the Vector Equilibrium Matrix. This union was characterized as material and spiritual, living as well as inert, masculine/feminine, young/old, and morally neutral.

http://zero-point.tripod.com/diamondbody/d...l#visualization (as provided by t st)

"All that is physical is energetic. All that is metaphysical is synergetic." (Fuller, 1976 - Mr Buckyballs)

 

 

It starts with One? thing.

Love is the Law, Love under Will.

Edited June 27, 2009 by Alchemica

[lofty86]

Heres a few i thought might fit in with your thread nice work

Inspired by the works of Aldouse Huxley this site covers Mindstates,Brainwave Technology,Transpersonalism,Mimetics

http://island.org/search/search.php

Dr Timothy Learys 8 circuit model- an evolutionary look at our chakras

http://deoxy.org/8circuit.htm

Explains the actions of Psychedelic experience in an easy to understand downloadable poster format (this ones a real gem)

http://www.tripzine.com/listing.php?smlid=697

I found these of EROWID links or links of EROWID links (LOL) These are just a few of the good ones check out the community links of EROWID. I only posted the ones i found easy to follow

Edited June 22, 2009 by lofty86

[lofty86]

Sorry guys you will have to type the adresses in i havent worked out how to post a link yet

[Alchemica]

Thanks again lofty! They look good.

Re links should just be able to type http://www.something.com and get it to work. Or go to the green + symbol 4th from the left on the top and follow that

Edited June 22, 2009 by Alchemica

[t st tantra]

hey ya edited the first post......there was a great quote there describing my relationship/rejection of spirituality and materialism and the balancing of opposites that i was going to comment on.......

followed my inner energies[chakras] and found myself outside my body,above my head.

the outside inside? when i realised everything including me was made of god,what was me? where was me?i still was....it didnt matter.....i am that i am.......

t s t .

[Alchemica]

This might be the one (I'll quote it in full):

The intent behind alchemy and the alchemical work is personal individuation, which is wholeness. In order to attain wholeness, it is said, one must square the circle. This is a tricky business. To square the circle is to become the four directions- up, down, in, and out; or, spirit, body, soul, and 'other'. Like the carbon atom- the chemical substratum and symbolic vibration of our essence- we have four places from which to build a molecule. How we use these four quarters begets the molecule we live within- and the entire existence that we are. We grow like crystals from an invisible seed, and express our true nature out into what we conventionally call the external. We are our world.[1]

To truly be whole we must serve the four primary constituents of our wholeness: inner, outer, above, and below. If we serve only the inner we cut ourselves off from life, and we become lonely, loveless hermits; if we serve only the outer we become bitter, soulless phantoms; if we serve only the below- the flesh and the earth- we become moribund matter; and if we serve only the above- the spirit and God-consciousness- we become disembodied spirits, adrift in an unreal world.

To get too focused in one direction is to end up walking in circles, instead of being a circle.

To square the circle is to be the circle of self, detached and yet intimate with the square world. To square the circle is to complete your specified perfection for this life. This means you are free.

To square the circle is to see equally in the four directions, and so to be whole, a sphere- a circled square.

Every part of the quaternity has equal representation. All aspects are included at every moment, for inner, outer, spirit, and flesh are one.

To find a new equilibrium where inner, outer, above, and below are balanced and in harmony, is to be One. To be the empty center of this one is to be all.

To be all is to be a devil of oneness which has come to destroy the parts; oneness is destructive to the parts- to all that differentiates itself from the whole, unless that 'differentness' arises as a devotional expression of the unified glory. For all that does not acknowledge, bless, or support this fusion into oneness must either be assimilated or trimmed off and melted away. That is the apocalypse of oneness.

The viscous flame of oneness comes burning away all division of spirit and flesh, and the diamond body becomes the eternal fuel of this emancipative, destructive union.

To look upward, outward, inward, and down, is to take up the cross of life; this is to look towards heaven, towards others, into yourself, and down into the body, and so to become the ever-crucified Christ which pulls all separate realms into one. To avoid any one of these is to become out of balance, to totter, and to fall.

When you merge male and female, a whole new pattern is created. When you merge good and evil, there is neither good nor evil, but instead a kaleidoscopic, checkered wholeness. Merge all four and you get an indestructible, eternal, royal sphere.

Nothing is excluded but all is transformed in this convergence within; it is this nuclear fusion of opposites which creates the new radiance within. The spirit becomes substantial- it becomes substance, and is now a radiant inner crystal, a glowing ball of inclusive continuity. This is the diamond body.[2]

This diamond body is stillness. Stillness is a detached, unshakeable inner peace which cannot be moved by the tremors of the external. This stillness is an inner peace which radiates the same peace outward, becoming an apocalyptic stillness that unites the external and internal in the very same substratum of the oceanic depths of Self, now contiguous with the thrashing waves of manifestation, and yet different also. This is to find yourself in a different room in the exact same house. A big, stone, unexpected, glorious room. The inner sanctum. Stillness.

To be in your inner sanctum is to feel and behave as you would if alone, though while amongst others; to be that immoveable, that untroubled, that unflappably detached stillness; a living, thriving, eternal, indifferent stillness.

Nothing will bring you this inner peace, but this inner peace will bring you everything. This inner peace is the ocean beyond the river of life. To become that peace is to leap over the river. On the other side of the chaotic show is the laughing director. Cross over.

To cross over, there can be nothing left but God. There can be no you, no me, no things, no thoughts, nothing, for all must be God. One.

When you enter into God within, everything becomes God. All of it. Inside and out. One. God.

Now Shiva and Shakti, Christ and Mary, Male and Female, Space and Form, good and evil, without and within, subtle and gross, all dualities are one Self, which is God.

Beyond judgment, beyond choice, beyond duality, beyond limitation, beyond form, beyond idea, beyond dogma, beyond separation, beyond relation, beyond reaction, beyond all that was, is, or will be, lies the great ocean of undifferentiated consciousness. When that nothingness spills out into somethingness- when the impersonal overtakes the personal, when nobodiness erases somebodiness- it is then that the discarnate emerges out of the incarnate, and the eternal self lives through the ephemeral form.

It is only when all opposites unite that this emptiness can occur unbroken- when self is both male and female, good and bad, inside and out; when love and rage, passion and dispassion, attachment and detachment coexist dynamically within the empty, living vessel.

To receive the King's crown is to have the Father's consciousness descend upon the Mother's subtle body through you.

To cross over means to die from separation altogether, to know, to be, and to see God in and as and of everything. One. Everything that is and is not, everything visible and invisible- all of it is one, and it is God. And if you place yourself outside of this One, this Godness, you will not cross over, because to cross over is to dissolve into the one God that is everything. To cross over is to evaporate into God, to etherealize your entire being into the vibration of eternity, to go down into and take upon yourself the whole world without going mad from sorrow or fear, and so to become it all, and so to transform it all. Amen.

http://www.spiritandflesh.com/bookOMAlchem...pirituality.htm

Edited June 27, 2009 by Alchemica

[t st tantra]

yep thats it,thanx.there is more of it now so may take a bit more thought........

t s t .

[Alchemica]

7 points (where the circles intersect/radiate to) - 7 chakras from Root to Crown I guess... Opening the third eye gives the eyes of God/All

Understand the Tears!

When searching for the truth, looks like one answer might??? be to keep all your light in the dark, stay grounded and look to "the heavens".

Edited June 29, 2009 by Alchemica

[Alchemica]

A few more links worth taking into consideration (probably above all the other links). Found that I came to extremely similar outcomes (just with more airheaded nonsense and ego dramas) without consulting them, anyway. Try not to get stuck in reverse and waste your time like I have been for far too long:

Jung and Alchemy

http://members.core.com/~ascensus/docs/jung3.html

Archetypal Alchemy: The Transformation of the Psyche-Matter Continuum

http://www.alchemyconference.com/downloads...hemy-Marlin.pdf

A Glossary of Jungian Terms

The alchemists thought that the opus demanded not only laboratory work (why not entheogenic), the reading of books, meditation, and patience, but also love.

- The Practice of Psychotherapy

http://www.terrapsych.com/jungdefs.html

Edited August 12, 2009 by Alchemica

[botanika]

Some very cool concepts and images - thanks for posting

[t st tantra]

alchemicas book 'alchemy for dummys' being drafted?lol

thanx for the linkage......

rather than blackness i often experience thickness before breaking through to a new level.

i identified with energy levels in electron shells.......things are bound up and restricted/slow then they break through to be freer and faster.

t s t .