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The Prayerful Warrior

The developmental signs of advancement in an alchemical soul practice usually involve some sort of healing crisis brought on by a discharge in the soul of accumulated assumptions and belief structures.  Most often these assumptions are not perceived by the student in a conscious way. They arise like dream fragments in the daily life and invade the serenity of the soul with impulses that are definitely not in line with progressive development.

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Posted:
March 22, 2011
Themes:
Metanoia, Soul Exercises

The Great Karma Exercise

The roots of the karma exercise lie in the capacity to form an inner picture and hold it at will and then to dissolve it at will. Practice this form of imagining for five minutes as a prelude to the karma exercise.  This puts the soul in touch with an inner force that an alchemist would call the aeriform metal, i.e. the ability to intensify, or dissolve a particular mood in the soul.

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Posted:
March 22, 2011
Themes:
Karma, Soul Exercises

Techniques for Transforming Dreaming

The technique of transforming dreaming is to saturate the going into sleep and the waking up times with as much attention and devotion as possible.

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Posted:
March 22, 2011
Themes:
Dreaming, Soul Exercises

Anxiety and the World Soul

The recent earthquake, tsunami and ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan are truly events that warrant sympathy and compassion for the Japanese people who lost family, livelihood and property to catastrophe.

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Posted:
April 05, 2011
Themes:
Anxiety, Soul Exercises

Soul Breathing

Soul breathing exercises are useful tools for transforming stuck belief structures in the soul. The first set (Spirit Biography) addresses issues in your past that have served to form beliefs in the present. These forces in your life constitute your spirit biography. They are impulses only dimly sensed by you but that form an energetic platform for your beliefs and actions. The second set (Present Biography) addresses issues in the present that continue to aggravate or irritate you. This is your present biography.

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Posted:
July 22, 2011
Themes:
Meditation, Soul Exercises

Earth Consciousness

The picture is an image of stars falling out of the sky as snow and then falling to earth as crystals. From the point of view of alchemy my thinking is creative when it is focused on the cosmic or starry dimension of my life. That is the source of solutions to my issues. Alchemically, my thinking on earth is a fallen and hardened kind of thinking that fills my inner life with crystallized memories instead of creative images.

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Posted:
December 16, 2011
Themes:
Consiousness, Soul Exercises