
Alchemy of the Heart

To appreciate the magnificence of our experience, in this moment, no matter what expression life’s face shows us, is to be enlightened.
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is intimacy that we seek, not enlightenment.
Michael Brown • Alchemy of the Heart
These must be neutralized if we are to re-enter an experiential awareness of our authentic vibrational essence.
Michael Brown • Alchemy of the Heart
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A perceptual tool transforms the mental body into an altar. To accomplish perceptual transformation we need “do” nothing. It is activated purely by the conscious wielding of our attention and intention. A perceptual tool opens something—it facilitates an opening within our awareness that is “unspeakable.” This opening is a feeling, and this feeling
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Instead of fleeing what is, we start settling into the moment we are always in—no matter what.
Michael Brown • Alchemy of the Heart
Our doings can simply cover up, or invite in, an awareness of the beingness that always is.
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The Enlightenment Trap
Michael Brown • Alchemy of the Heart
Perceptual Tools Once our intent to regain physical presence is set, the next step is to move inward along The Pathway of Awareness by inviting mental clarity. Activating mental clarity requires the same “not-doing” approach as we initiate through consciously connected breathing.
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Telling ourselves mentally that the quality of our life experience is determined by the condition of our emotional body, and that we are responsible for the condition of our emotional body, is not enough. Even when we arrive at this point of understanding through intelligent deductive reasoning, as we have done so far, it is still not enough. For t
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