The following is from Iona Miller's website "Spiritual Alchemy" and helps one to better understand the path their intuitive resonance is guiding them toward. Clarification from information with resonation equals acceleration! I hope you find this writing as useful as I do....
Iona Miller's SOUL SUPPORT ~ 21st Century Alchemy (Ionatopia)
SPIRITUAL ALCHEMY & ALCHEMICAL ART
Alchemy is an irreducible fusion of science and art that also happens to be
therapeutic or growth-promoting and hints at illumination. The process
begins with doubts and lack of conviction but time spent on
self-knowledge is amply rewarded. Alchemists are contemplative
researchers versed in the science of personal transformation and the
art of inner magic.
Spiritual alchemy is a grand experiment you perform on yourself with critical
introspection and objective investigation. You can discover your deeper
nature as a multidimensional synthesis of subjective/objective,
qualitative/quantitative, mind/matter, wave/particle.
It is the responsibility of each individual to bring about their own transformation and be free to reincarnate now,
to embody that transformation fully. The outer is the inner, and the
inner is the outer. Lived reality is only experienced reality and is
always transformed before it is experienced.
Alchemy increases your capacity to relate to inward-flowing content. You can
regenerate yourself. You are the world and the world is you. You can
deny or affirm the sacred. By changing yourself, you change everything.
You can be a light unto yourself, lit by yourself. You are the cosmos
and the cosmos is you.
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sought the experience of Unus Mundus, the one world united through
material, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects. Science illuminates
the spiritual quest, and spiritual tech illuminates the deep nature of
matter and our nature. Paradoxically, when we look into the depths of
matter, we look into the depths of ourselves. Scientists and mystics
report similar phenomena in their models and phenomenology. Spiritual
technologies, the software of sacred penetration and amplification,
virtually predicted the fine nature of matter as nothing but a complex
illusion - what we have come to understand as a hologram. Mystics have
also always emphasized the primal nature of Light, and claimed that we
are in fact made of light itself. Science has confirmed this in
numerous ways. http://spiritualphysics.50megs.com
Alchemy is the Great Work, a process of separation, transformation and Alchemy is an accelerated pathway to self-mastery, to self-realization. It is There are many ways to articulate the dynamic process. Process is a way of
The Philosopher's Stone may be equated with the Body of Light (Photonic The process of making the Philosopher's Stone is a repitition of the The deep nature of the Photonic Absolute space
integration. This is just as true of the substances worked
experimentally in the retort as it is of the personality undergoing the
transformative process. The mindbody is a crucible for refining the
vehicles of consciousness. By altering your own consciousness, you
alter your relation to the universe, and this changes your world.
an alternative, pre-scientific spiritual and philosophical
interpretation of life, encompassing its physical, emotional and mental
aspects. It is an elegant worldview still relevant in contemporary
life. The alchemist is the catalytic agent of this spiritual chemistry.
doing, not what is being done. Alchemy is a process-oriented path,
emphasizing awareness of internal experience over external striving and
emphasizing a connection with the sacred. It demands self-honesty,
self-responsibility and an overarching desire to live life as a
spiritual path. More than simply developing self, the alchemist
transforms chaos to Cosmos.There are three primary aspects of alchemy:
1. Alchemy as theory, is a comprehensive philosophical vision of the cosmos, built on the universal correspondence system.
2. Alchemy as practice may be viewed as a creative discipline, an art-form, involving one in the imaginal realm of soul-making.
3.
Alchemy, as a transcendental search or quest, has the primary goal of
liberation from the world. This is the knowledge of immortality,
through the union of opposites.Paracelsus described alchemy as the voluntary action of man in harmony with the
involuntary action of nature. If the center of the creative process
takes place in the "heart of man," his intentions take on profound
significance. They can now affect, or influence, the destinies of the
cosmos. Attainment of this state is known as the production of the
Philosopher's Stone or Diamond Body.
Body; Scalar Field Body), the Resurrection Body, or the Immortal Body.
Alchemy strives for the experience of spiritual rebirth through the
union of opposites, or the sacred marriage. The Philosopher's Stone is
also a symbol of the embryonic Self. It is the product of the sacred
marriage, which has been characterized in alchemy as the royal union of
the Sun (+) and the Moon (-).
male-female, god-devil, spirit-matter, mother-father, etc. This
marriage creates a bond by which opposites are united in an image which
transcends both original potentials. The whole art of alchemy is
contained within the image of a magical or divine child. One of the
alchemical goals is to create an eternal body for post-mortal
continuation of the spirit and the soul, a radiant body of coherent
photonic Zero-Point energy, a Rainbow Body.
creation myth via imagery. The imagery reverses the evolutional
direction. It begins with animal images, then proceeds through images
of plant life to more fundamental forms. The final goal is symbolized
by metal, stone, or crystal.
Body, the energy body, is this same Light. We all have a light-filled
body, but more are real-I-zing that Light is our truly fundamental
nature. We can embody the evidence of that Brilliance. We are nothing
but Brilliance; "Nothing", but Brilliance. Transformation is
real-I-zation at ever-deeper levels of existence. Yet psychological
resistance is as real as electrical resistance.
is the womb of creation and the physics of virtual photon fluctuation
reflects not only Nature, but our nature. Spiritual traditions have
spoken about emanation within the Divine and Illumination since the
dawn of human history. But only now are we learning just how literal
that experience of Light is, and the interactive mechanisms it engages
in our holistic psychophysical Being.
The elements of alchemy still power the world with fire (solar), earth
(geothermal), air (windpower) and water (hydro). They likewise power us
internally, including the fifth element quintessence -- our bioplasmic
life energy. All are rooted in the negentropic zero point potential.
STATE OF THE ART - The ancient art of alchemy was the search for spirit in
matter. In modern life, it is a way of contacting and deepening your
own relationship with the sacred dimension of life. We "die to live" in
meditation daily. The undying state does not mean living in the
physical body forever, but living the Eternal in each and every moment
fully aware of our multidimensional existence. We can touch the
timeless realm in any instant by moving from mind to awareness.
Enlightenment can come at anytime from NowHere. We can draw from the
nourishing essence of our negentropic Source. We can feed the energy
body with living light, and practice identifying with that finer body
as the vehicle of our consciousness. Meditation is preparation for
merging with the eternal, consciously and purposefully.
STATE OF THE HEART - Alchemy is a heartful path of living dedication,
symbolized by the relationship of mystical brothers and sisters. You
are the alchemical vessel and the contents of your psyche is the means
and object of transformation so you can realize your potential. There
are deeper dimensions of soul and spirit beyond ego gratification.
Active evocation of the imagination reveals your invisible depths.
Practice and service ground these in life. You embody the principles.
Understanding of your own essence is like a beacon that draws you into
an even deeper connection with the sacred.
From the same website, an introduction to the work and intent of Ms. Miller....
Iona Miller, consultant and transdisciplinarian, is a nonfiction writer for
both the academic and popular press, hypnotherapist (ACHE) and
multimedia artist. Her work is an omnisensory fusion of sacred
activism, intelligence, science-art, chaos theory, plenum physics, and
emergent paradigm shift melding experiential psychotherapy, new
physics, biophysics, philosophy, cosmology, healing, creativity,
qabalah, magick, paranormal, "dirty tricks," media ecology, mind
control, paramedia, metaphysics, and culture change. Rather than having
an interest in specific doctrines, she is interested in the EFFECTS of
doctrines from religion, science, psychology, and the arts. Our beliefs
are the moldable raw material of the psyche, manipulated by
governments, media and culture. How do we become what we are and how is
that process changing in the near future?
Performance artist and spywhisperer, Ms. Miller writes for the international
academic and popular press and is published by Phanes Press, Destiny
Books (Inner Traditions), Autonomedia, Nexus Magazine, Dream Network,
PM&E, Journal of Nonlocality and Remote Mental Interactions
(JNLRMI), Chaosophy Journal, OAK, DNA Monthly, Pop Occulture, Schiffer,
Bolero, Science-Art Research Centre, and more. She serves on the Boards
of Medigrace.org, and The Wisdom Center, nonprofit organizations.
Recent contributions include print articles in Der Golem (Germany),
Paranoia zine #44, #46 (USA), HunterGatheress Journal (USA), JNLRMI
(Russia), Antibiothis (Portugal), The Art of Fetish (Miami), and
Journal of Interdisciplinary Crossroads (India). Her artwork has shown
in Miami, Phoenix, New York, and more. She has appeared in 21st Century
Radio, Untamed Dimensions, Reality Portal, Digital Long Island, etc.
http://ionamiller2008.iwarp.com/
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