When you see the word, ‘alchemy’ it may conjure images of people hovering over hot pans and stoves, intending to transform base metals into gold. Or perhaps you’ve heard the term used more recently regarding secret organisations and conspiracy theories. We humans do love a good story! So what is spiritual alchemy and, why might you want to explore it?
We're Talking Transformation
The term ‘alchemy’ means transformation. So what kind of transformation occurs in alchemy? Alchemy is an ancient practice shrouded in mystery and secrecy. However, the goals of alchemy travel far beyond simply creating gold from lead. The foundation of Alchemy is rooted in a complex spiritual worldview where everything contains a universal spirit. Essentially, everything is alive.
In more recent years, as psychology develops a greater interest in the soul, we begin to understand that the physical process of alchemy may represent something more ethereal. Specifically, a representation of breaking down the image of who we think we are to discover who we are at the soul level.
The objective of spiritual alchemy is to transform our experience of reality. The journey encourages us to engage in the present moment, connect with nature and everything around us, create more joy and learn to master our thoughts. Through mind mastery, we can choose to experience the life we desire and create on purpose.
From Energy To Matter And All The Way Back Again
In simple terms, the process of spiritual alchemy takes us through the journey of stripping back our humanness to reconnect at the soul level whilst still in physical form. What does that mean? Well, have you noticed that everything in life is a product of our values, belief systems, and the choices we believe are available to us? Our life experience is limited to what we think we know. Therefore, to operate beyond that is a challenge until we force the gateway open.
That is what spiritual alchemy is all about. Breaking beyond the boundaries of what we think we know, to discover a new reality. The process explores the idea that we choose to manifest in physical life to learn lessons that expand consciousness. That expansion serves our purpose to elevate the collective consciousness when we return from matter to energy once more.
Lifeforce, sometimes referred to as ki, qi, or chi flows through every living thing on the planet. Spiritual alchemy involves mastery of that energy to reconnect with the collective ONE. Some may refer to this as source energy, the universe, the sun or even God.
Opening Our Eyes To Accept Our Truth
The process involves connecting with our WHOLE truth. By taking full responsibility for our life experience and acknowledging that we are darkness, light and everything in between, we free our potential by accepting who we are. Rather than trying to align with the illusion of who we, our family or society think we should be, we learn self-acceptance of where we are now. We begin to let go of ideas that imprison us in the game of life and expand into a new level of conscious awareness.
It sounds as easy as learning the alphabet. Not so much. The theory proposes we are born into this world with fixed elements or lessons to learn through the awareness of the ego. That in itself does not seem so challenging. However, when you consider that the moment we arrive in this 3D experience, we are given the experience of separation or, to put it another way, polarity. We begin to perceive the world through the filter of opposites such as light and dark, good and bad, higher and lower, mind and body, logic and feeling, lazy and hard-working. To complicate things even further, we’re surrounded by other people all going through the same experience.
Egos & Archetypes
We spend the first part of our lives grounding ourselves in the material world. Specifically, we are working with our ego to find our place in the world, building a solid foundation. Mainly we focus on education, work, relationships, family and more. To create a sense of who we are in this world and what we represent. During the latter half of our lives, we begin to look for purpose and connection with something greater than us, to prepare for our transition to a less tangible, energetic experience.
During the first part of our lives, we’re working strongly with our egos. We aim to put our mark on society and express our individuality.
Ironically, during this time, our thoughts are shaped and sculpted by society, which creates a life plan for us. Everyone accepts that we must educate, then work, marry, then have children, and do everything we are told an upstanding member of the community does. We celebrate intellect and complexity. We accept hierarchy as the norm. Our values, belief systems and mental freedoms are strongly impacted by geography, economy, perceived status, education, religion, culture and more. Operating in achievement mode, we feel successful as we gather material things, a failure if we don’t.
Taking Control of the Reins
In addition to all this material creation, we’re tasked with working through certain archetypes, or mini-personalities, present in our energy field. Our purpose is to integrate and settle them, to bring them into alignment or neutrality. In neutral we have the choice to activate them at will. When they drive us, they cause havoc. If we don’t take control of the reins during the first part of our life, those cheeky little energies begin to turn our lives upside down. Perhaps for the purpose of getting us back on the path we chose for ourselves.
So what’s the big picture? Sincerely, I believe the entire journey is designed to allow us to perceive love and equality for everyone. Against all the odds. To achieve this, we must break through the ego bubble of separation and hierarchy and into the deep unconscious to seek and settle our wholeness. What do I mean by wholeness? I’m referring to our ability to balance our masculine and feminine energies and harness the power of the whole for creation. It’s the challenge of a lifetime!
Destiny And Free Will - Created By You, For You
We are programmed to imagine life happens to us rather than for us. We spend so much time trying to assert our control over our reality. This behaviour suggests we must believe that we do not have a grip on the world or our experience of it. What if that is not true?
Could you conceive of a plan where, at the soul level, we choose to enter the physical experience to engage in specific encounters and adventures to increase our learning? How would you feel if you knew that some elements of your life experience were mapped out or designed by you? All of this happening before you arrived. That it was YOU who set you on a path that you might call either fate, destiny, or random events?
What if you agreed with a host of other souls to live out scenarios with them? The good, the bad, and the ugly. Then after your grand design was set in motion, to give yourself free will, you chose to forget it all on arrival in this world? Let us be clear. If you had access to the plan, all your choices would vanish, wouldn’t they? Free will would disappear. If all this is true, you alone would have created your life experiences on purpose and using your free will. Could you accept this idea?
Letting Go For Empowerment
If you do choose to accept this idea, you open the door to bursting your ego bubble. You are, and everyone is. So much of what you may hold dear now, those ideas you have about who you are and where you stand in society, are likely to become meaningless.
It’s a ride!
The acceptance that you created ever situation in your life either before or after you arrived here is easy to accept if it’s all come up smelling of roses. If it hasn’t, well that is an entirely different story.
This journey is not for the fainthearted. The process shines a light on some of our most uncomfortable truths and asks us to accept them, releasing judgement and status along the way.
A path of acceptance, alignment and integration awaits those who choose to engage. It’s a no risk, no reward scenario that leads the ego-vanquisher to a blissful state of being. The choice is yours!
The 7 Stages of Spiritual Alchemy
Spiritual Alchemy is the art of transformation, inner liberation, and change through destruction, purification, integration, acceptance, alignment and rebuilding. It involves a process of energy healing, and not in the form you might imagine. We release trapped thought energy from each of our control centres or chakras. Similar to the alchemical process for matter, the spiritual alchemy process has seven stages.
1) Calcination
The process of breaking down parts of ourselves that are in the way of our happiness. Calcination represents the stage in our lives where we begin breaking down our egos, self-doubt, stubbornness, self-sabotaging behaviour, pride and arrogance, to discover what lies beneath.
2) Dissolution
We learn to appreciate how our behaviour affects others and everything else in our reality. Beginning to take responsibility for everything and we let go of the illusions that hitherto kept us safe from despair. This part is an emotional ride.
3) Separation
The mirror of who we really are. We start the journey of holding negative emotions in the body and mind, learning to transmute that energy into something we can purposefully use to improve our lives.
4) Conjunction
Provides us with the inner space required to accept our WHOLE selves.
5) Fermentation
The beginning of our process of rebirth. A little like composting – we break down to become something else.
6) Distillation
A period of purification where we learn to use our mind to find inner peace – in any circumstances. This is what is mostly defined as “enlightenment.”
7) Coagulation
You become free from the mind and have allowed our consciousness or Soul, to connect with the Spirit. We can finally appreciate the one-ness of everything and a deep-rooted joyful states sets in.
What is spiritual alchemy for you? Only you can know if you choose to engage. We each follow our own path and only we can know what to release and what to transform. If you’d like some support along your Spiritual Alchemy path, check out my self-learning online Alchemical W.O.W personal transformation journey below.
Alchemical W.O.W
I created Alchemical W.O.W after a deep-dive exploration in search of my own answer for the question “what is Spiritual Alchemy?”
What did I find? A few sharp slaps in the face and the realisation that I had not achieved balance in my energy by the mid-point of my life. The result, the uncomfortable awareness that I created chaos in my mid-to-late thirtees, and a desire to do something about it.
Alchemical W.O.W is deeply personal journey. It’s my deeply personal journey that I share with you, not as a template for you to follow, but to inspire you to start your own.
I’m going to be honest – it’s a challenging roller coaster ride. And it’s worth every single bump in the road.
If you’re a healer or an empath, experienced coach or energy worker, if you lean towards the natural side of wicca – you’re going to be able to reach into this and squeeze all the value out.
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