Alchemy

The Alchemical Wedding

By Dennis Klocek October 25, 2021
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This series explore the story of the alchemical wedding by Chrisitan Rosencreutz, a symbolic union of opposites that represents spiritual transformation and inner harmony. It explores how this mystical marriage between masculine and feminine energies can lead to profound personal and spiritual growth.

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Adventures on the Symbolic Plane of Consciousness

By Dennis Klocek October 22, 2021
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As had been employed by mystery pupils of the past, modern explorers of the wisdom of self-transformation use symbolic imagery for enhancing their meditative practice. A specific practice which Rudolf Steiner called entering the astral body. Starting with the mandala as an archetype of consciousness, each session will use the methodology of breathing an image to enter into its symbolic content. Small workgroups will address the inner responses to these symbols using suggested protocols.

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New Book! The Alchemical Marriage

By Ben Klocek October 19, 2021
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We’re pleased to announce the publication of a book that has been many years in the making, The Alchemical Wedding – Christian Rosenkreutz, the Initiate of Misunderstanding. From the back of the book: Filled with alchemical metaphors, coded words, and images, Dennis Klocek describes—in his inimitable style—much of the profound meaning behind the colorful and…

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Biodynamic Alchemy and Spagyrics

By Dennis Klocek September 11, 2021
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This workshop will focus on the alchemical principle of spagyric substance that is at the core of Biodynamic preparation methods. The term spagyric was coined by the great alchemist Paracelsus to describe procedures for taking apart a substance at one level of existence and reinvesting it into itself it at a higher, more energetic, level of existence.

The resulting spagyric substance transcends its natural order energetically. Seen in this way, putting cow manure in a cow horn is alchemically spagyric.

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Medicinal Plants – Alchemical Analogs – September 2018

By Dennis Klocek September 11, 2021
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These presentations develop the creation of analogs as the basis for science into actual harvest and processing protocols based on plant time body gestures.

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Medicinal Plants – Distillation – July 2018

By Dennis Klocek September 11, 2021
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These presentations go into the particulars of high quality fermenting and the construction and use of the proper laboratory equipment for small scale extraction.

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Elements, Temperaments and Humors – Part 4

By Dennis Klocek October 2, 2020
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See our video series on Temperaments and Health here. In alchemy the levity/ gravity polarity is known as the sun and moon. The levity side of an alchemical mandala is linked to the force of the sun. The solar force is Avicenna’s principle of innate heat. It is also the principle behind Rudolf Steiner connecting…

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Sacred Earth

By Dennis Klocek April 2, 2020
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These four lectures were given at a Biodynamically inspired agricultural festival in the fall of 2019 in San Miguel de Allende in Mexico. The intent was to link the mineral, plant, animal and medicinal properties found in the high desert area of San Miguel.

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