Hello Human,

Welcome to Alchemy 101. For the next six months, we're going to be on a collective journey of inner-knowing. What does this mean?

As humans, we are born in a kind of oblivion, and over time, contend with certain obstacles and experiences that require us to develop tricks and mechanisms to keep ourselves safe and maintain some semblence of that original oblivion. In doing so, we grow to have layers upon layers of material dedicated to keeping us from feeling pain, that eventually begin to keep us from truly feeling anything but lingering, implacable resentment.

To know, we need to shed the layers, not by peeling them back from the outside--that only agitates it, like when you pick at a scar or pimple--but by expanding from within and allowing what needs to, to fall away.

Sometimes people will experience sudden, explosive expansions of awareness, as an effect of plant medicines or other drugs. But this experience can be created completely naturally, through one's simple will and dedication to the work.

What is the work? It is becoming love and coming into the fullness of truth, your truth, not as it is told to us, but as it is experienced, as you experience it. It is about gratitude and knowing that so long as we're alive, good is always overcoming. It is about understanding that you, as an individual, are solely responsible for how you feel. There are challenges that will make or break you, bring you to the precipice (or even depth) of existential crisis, and force you to face anything you are inclined to ignore. Whatever is inauthentic or conflicted within will be destroyed; whatever is left will comprise the root of virtue from which you resurrect, and the process will begin again. What is most important is that you be well intended, be honest with yourself first and foremost, and maintain your integrity.

I would (and will continue to) advise that you develop the ability to meditate, as the mind can get whipped up into a frenzy processing these experiences and there are critical thresholds to cross where the ability to find stillness will be essential.

Over the next six months, we will convene bi-weekly through Zoom for lectures and discussing assigned readings, and will be sharing our personal experiences in a private discord server with a handful of alchemical tutors who have been working with me for the past year.

We will consult a number of texts, with our core readings being:

• The Emerald Tablet
• The Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
• The Prophet - Gibran
• Alchemy an Introduction - Marie Louise von Franz
• Shakespeare

My mission with this program is to make the tools of inner-knowing more accessible to people. I want to help you find and expand that obscure, central fire blazing in the core of your being, hidden beneath layers of ego and trauma, for the price of one therapy session a month. And over the course of six months, I will give you the knowledge and guidance you need to become solid and comfortable in that expansion.

Should you decide to join, you'll be invited to the private discord a few days before the course begins on the coming October New Moon.

Classes will be held every other Sunday at 10 AM EST (Toronto)/5 PM EEST (Beirut) beginning Sunday, October 15th. Sessions will be recorded and uploaded to teachable for you to rewatch/download in case you miss the class time.

Safe travels light-beam.