Alchemy is a process of transformation. Alchemists have the ability to turn heavy base metals into amazing metallic light, beautiful gold. The psychologist Carl Jung explained this alchemy as a metaphor for transforming our own internal darkness of the body and mind into light... "transforming the dark matter of the unconscious into the pure gold of the integrated self".
Through our yogic practices there is a graceful churning, an ongoing transformation into sattva (purity and light), an inner alchemy. As we hold to our practice with dedication grace flows through us purifying our minds and hearts and calls for us to let go and surrender to this grace even more. Only then can the Goddess Kundalini Shakti (spiritual energy) to be awakened within us and transform us safely and gracefully. When we come to understand and experience this transformative energy, grace unfolds in our lives and we see how shakti expresses itself through us. Tantrikas (tantric practitioners) like to say that Shakti breathes us. When we clear through the darkness of the mind and ego we see that we are not the ones even breathing here. As long as our organism is alive the breath is automatic.... Shakti is breathing us. All consciousness is a marvelous expressive dance of the Great Absolute.
With a dedicated yogic practice we are ever transformed, transcending all limitations so we can come into the glory of the integrated Self. To not just know this with the mind and intellect, but with love and attention, dedication and surrender, we get to experience this inner alchemy. As the Shakti moves through each of the koshas (sheaths of our being), and Chakras we experience how the darkness, dullness and inertia of the body, mind, and spirit are transformed into a golden vessel of capability and purpose.
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