Hi Everyone,
I'm so glad to have found this web-site and I've very excited to start exploring the wealth of knowledge that seems to be available here. I've just started the first lecture on alchemy and it does seem a bit dry but I am already learning new things. I'm finding that he is referring to earlier lectures and I now see that there is a "beginning here and now series" which I am going to listen to first.
I hope if people do decide to listen to these that we can share our thoughts and comments, questions to give the courses more of that classroom experience.
I happened on this page when listening to this lecture because he mentioned acacia wood. It turns out that the arc of the covenant was supposedly made of this wood and it was also the tree with the knowledge of good and evil in the garden of Heliopolis (basis of the garden of Eden tree of life?). So you built your arc, made your wine and stored it there, tripped out on the dmt and you were able to communicate with God? Also, Jesus's crown of thorns was supposedly made of this wood.
http://www.interferencetheory.com/Blog/files/0cfdfa3b5fdbee2b54adcd4a963ed674-118.html
Looks like a great resource, Wendy. And I love that it's offered free of charge! Thanks for posting this.
With love and warm wishes,
Fred
thanks for the thread, wendy. i think i saw this page through my wanderings about the http://www.tekgnostics.com website. i have explored much in the writings of gnostics and alchemy... looked a little closer at this site now and i like their clear and simple approach while bringing several belief systems into accord. showing how they relate to and complement one another. read through (didn't listen) daath, the tree of knowledge and fuel for spiritual experience. already familiar with a lot of kabbalistic terminology, so easy for me to pick up there. i like their presentation! not sure how the interaction/sharing would occur without someone guiding it or choosing lectures/topics, but if you want to throw out some concepts or themes to explore, it looks like all of the different lectures support the same perspective, so i'm sure the same material is explored from different angles...
this is just a personal opinion, mind you, and that doesn't mean there isn't anything to be learned here. the above site is still rooted in a certain belief structure (which some may need) and obviously a tool of the hierarchy (which can still give a leg up to those who need it). so the dogma and use of names from certain global localities (not here) make it somewhat pointed. and it's datedness and obvious worshipful devotion of its acolytes... there are some great thinkers and authors from our collective past, but you have to take the setting into account and the signs of the times, because times change and we are living a different paradigm already, now.
but still some poignant info there, and lots of it... lots of words...
i suppose i got turned off to it when i entered a realm involving mantras and deities and invocation. seemed a little fear-based. and i reflect on the tragic story of queen elizabeth and dr. john dee and how they somewhat orchestrated britain's global takeover. he dabbled with forces and powers which he should have worked WITH instead of manipulating. we are living in the fallout of that mess they helped create, and it's better to embody those qualities than attempt to order them according to your own personal will. they have much more important matters to attend to (like putting out fires that we create through our lack of consciousness).
mainly what helped me and seems as though it's never a dated topic, is his stressing of the right use of sexual energy. took some flak over using that word openly in the 50s. but it is true that the basis of the kundalini energy rising up the spine to do "higher" things is in not squandering that energy. and it is the basis of everything you do. so, even emotionally and mentally it is relied upon, not just physically.
if there is an emotional imbalance, the energy is stopped up or leaks out of certain chakras and cannot make the complete journey/loop to empower one to the next level. wheels spinning...
anger is that energy flying out in the wrong place. sadness is when a center is sucking in on itself. there are other connections to be made...