This 7-class series explores the 7 different stages of personal transformation learned through the alchemical process. What is Alchemy? What does turning lead into gold have to do with personal transformation? What the initiated alchemist understood was that the alchemical process only works when applying it to the self. For example, lead symbolized heaviness and impurity. Gold was seen as purity, beauty within, and incorruptible. Alchemists believed that they could affect the quantum field and manipulate matter but first they must undergo their own transmutation within. It is an art and science that is believed to effect change on the physical plane, but only by changing the mental and spiritual plane as well. The stages that the alchemist discovered are not only the stages that are still used in medicine, chemistry, and science, but are stages that we can see all around us throughout our lives.
Each week we will learn about the different stages through guided meditations. The guided meditation will be accompanied with a sound immersion, with gongs, singing bowls, chimes, and drums to help you sink into a meditative state. Come learn how to work with these 7 stages of transformation, so you can become an active participant in the alchemical process of life, instead of passively letting life happen to you.
Schedule:
10/6 - Calcination (Burning Away the False Self)
10/13 - Dissolution (Clearing through Emotion)
10/20 - Separation (Finding Truth through Breath)
10/27 - Conjunction (Union of Opposites)
11/3 - Fermentation (Awakening the Inner Spirit)
11/10 - Distillation (Refining the Soul)
11/17 - Coagulation (Embodying your Gold)
