mandala
Earth, water, air and fire as four levels of consciousness, with an exercise for each: thinking backwards, growing a plant in the imagination, seeing yourself from behind, and listening into silence.
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[Ed: Dennis taught this material in full over a weekend in Viroqua, Wisconsin, in 2009. The four lectures are available as Alchemy of Consciousness: Imagination as a Path of Healing.] If we think about it most of our trials come out of the inner experience that we seem to have two contrasting modes of consciousness…
[Ed: Dennis taught this material in full over a weekend in Viroqua, Wisconsin, in 2009. The four lectures are available as Alchemy of Consciousness: Imagination as a Path of Healing.] The image shows the retort of our sleeping consciousness with the birds of thought arising out of the neck in clouds of steam. These birds…
[Ed: Dennis taught this material in full over a weekend in Viroqua, Wisconsin, in 2009. The four lectures are available as Alchemy of Consciousness: Imagination as a Path of Healing.] In the beginning, all transformation of the consciousness involves grounding the psyche in a concentrated form. This is represented by the earth stage of the…
[Ed: Dennis taught this material in full over a weekend in Viroqua, Wisconsin, in 2009. The four lectures are available as Alchemy of Consciousness: Imagination as a Path of Healing.] This picture is an adaptation of an old alchemical image that shows the flowing and generous nature of the goddess of the waters. The Sun…
[Ed: Dennis taught this material in full over a weekend in Viroqua, Wisconsin, in 2009. The four lectures are available as Alchemy of Consciousness: Imagination as a Path of Healing.] 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…
[Ed: Dennis taught this material in full over a weekend in Viroqua, Wisconsin, in 2009. The four lectures are available as Alchemy of Consciousness: Imagination as a Path of Healing.] The charts for the alchemical journey of self transformation often take the form of a mandala or sacred wheel. This is because the sacred journey…