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In the alchemical opus, the early operations and procedures are characterized by a destruction of the prima materia. It must be cooked, incinerated, dissolved until it reaches a uniform blackness; this is the first stage of the work — the nigredo . Breaking down the material helps reduce it back to its primal state. Only then can it be truly... See more
Alyssa Polizzi • The Alchemy of Shadow Work
Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
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Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul
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McGilchrist brings up again and again that the right hemisphere is more deeply connected with the body than the left one, and that it specializes in broad, open awareness — so our obvious choices are open awareness meditation and somatic meditation .
The go-to options for learning about these are:
The go-to options for learning about these are:
- Reggie Ray
- Loch Kelly
- Judith Blackstone
- My Somatic
River Kenna • Solving McGilchrist's Big Problem
Andy Travis • “You Have To Keep Breaking Your Heart Until It Opens”- Rumi
Rumi
The shadow is a living part of the personality and therefore wants to live with it in some form. It cannot be argued out of existence or rationalized into harmlessness.
C. G. Jung • Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 9 (Part 1): Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung Book 10)
David Lynch on ideas:
Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait.The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in—those ideas. The beautiful thing is that when you catch one fish that you love, even if it's a little fish—a fragment of an... See more