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[pstyle:CT]Contents [pstyle:TOC]Acknowledgments vii [pstyle:TOC]Introduction viii [pstyle:TOC]Introduction viii [pstyle:TOC]Part I The Nigredo and the Rising of Lunar Consciousness 15 [pstyle:TOC]Chapter 1: The Psyche[0x2019]s Alchemical Language 38 [pstyle:TOC]The Activation of Mercurius 60 [pstyle:TOC]The Philosopher[0x2019]s Stone and the Birth of the Black Light 62 [pstyle:TOC]Turn, and Kiss the Black Stone 62 [pstyle:TOC]The Light That Cultivates 73 [pstyle:TOC]The Fire of the Alchemists 75 [pstyle:TOC]Chapter 2: Beginning the Alchemical Process: Rooting in the Psyche and Psychoid 79 [pstyle:TOC]Instinct and Spirit, Ego and Self 80 [pstyle:TOC]Religious Instinct as Roots 81 [pstyle:TOC]Rooting in the Psyche for the [0x201C]Mother[0x201D] 83 [pstyle:TOC]Rooting, Divine Appetite, and Addiction 84 [pstyle:TOC]Maeve and the Wild Pigs 85 [pstyle:TOC]Rooting for Religious Experience via Eros 86 [pstyle:TOC]The Religious Instinct and the Erotic Leap into the Unknown 87 [pstyle:TOC]The Axis Mundi as Bridge between Archaic and Modern Humankind 89 [pstyle:TOC]Chapter 3: Finding the Living Waters 92 [pstyle:TOC]The Living Water and Its Vessel: An Inner Attitude 94 [pstyle:TOC]On the Composition of the Alchemical Waters at Work in Our Lives 98 [pstyle:TOC]Embodying the Vessel via the Wound 102 [pstyle:TOC]The Dew of the Living Spirit of the Imagination 104 [pstyle:TOC]The Stinking Waters of the Descent 111 [pstyle:TOC]On Love and the Waters That Unite 121 [pstyle:TOC]Chapter 4: Tending the Living Waters 130 [pstyle:TOC]The Lovers Appearing at the Font 131 [pstyle:TOC]Evolution of Consciousness Requires Contact with Spirit Mercurius 134 [pstyle:TOC]Wholeness, not Perfection 139 [pstyle:TOC]Tracking a Few Devils at the Spring 139 [pstyle:TOC]The Devilish Spell of Concretization 143 [pstyle:TOC]Our Own Psychic Devilish Fixity and the Dream Spirit[0x2019]s Penetrating Arrows 144 [pstyle:TOC]Devils of Calcified Ideas 148 [pstyle:TOC]When the Waters of the Inner Spring [0x201C]Fix[0x201D] or Freeze 150 [pstyle:TOC]Mercurius as the Invaluable Inner Jackass 212 [pstyle:TOC]Trickster Nature and Religious Form in Community 212 [pstyle:TOC]The Ass: the Ordinary and Lowly Nature as Carrier of the God 214 [pstyle:TOC]The Ass God in Dream 217 [pstyle:TOC]King Midas[0x2019]s Fatal Flaw: An Inability to Own the Inner Jack Ass 219 [pstyle:TOC]Religious Conscience and the IBD 225 [pstyle:TOC]Looking into the Relationship Field for the Invaluable Inner Jackass and Decoding Saturn[0x2019]s Lead 228 [pstyle:TOC]Chapter 5: Integration of the Opposites: Sun-Moon Mysteries 161 [pstyle:TOC]The Human Hand Amid the Mysteries 161 [pstyle:TOC]Apollo and Artemis before the Union 165 [pstyle:TOC] The Sun God[0x2019]s Shadow at the Font 167 [pstyle:TOC]Sun-Moon Rebirth Pattern in Myth, Dream and Waking Life 173 [pstyle:TOC]Lunar Rebirth 175 [pstyle:TOC]Midnight Birth of the Sun God 177 [pstyle:TOC]Artemis, Guardian of the Axis Mundi 178 [pstyle:TOC]Artemis and the Pre-Phallic Mystery of Yin 179 [pstyle:TOC]The Dark Side of the Moon 181 [pstyle:TOC]Heart of the Forest, Heart of the Imagination 186 [pstyle:TOC]A Little Light on the Moon Mysteries of the Alchemists from Dreams and Life Experience 187 [pstyle:TOC]The Moon Grows a Phallus 187 [pstyle:TOC]The Moon and Mercurius Marry: Fixity, Love, and Grace 197 [pstyle:TOC]Artemis/Diana and Her Doves of Peace 198 [pstyle:TOC]The Devilish [0x201C]Thief[0x201D] 201 [pstyle:TOC]Integration of Sun and Moon: Night Vision, Day Vision, and Binocular Vision 208 [pstyle:TOC]Fruitful Struggle between Sun and Moon 209 [pstyle:TOC]The Garden of the Alchemists 210 [pstyle:TOC]Shining Renewed 232 [pstyle:TOC]Chapter 6: The Divine Transforming in the Human Soul 233 [pstyle:TOC]Encounters with the Divine transforming in the Human Soul 242 [pstyle:TOC]Love[0x2019]s Penetrating Spirit Contacts the Life Essence 243 [pstyle:TOC]What Does the Divine Experience with Incarnation? 249 [pstyle:TOC]Resisting the Divine Incarnation 255 [pstyle:TOC]The Evolution of the Divine in Our Life Journey 257 [pstyle:TOC][0x201C]Atheists[0x201D] Find These Mysteries, Too 259 [pstyle:TOC]Which Innermost Values Are on the Throne? 263 [pstyle:TOC]Discovering the Ally from the Psychoid 265 [pstyle:TOC]The the Ally as Erotic Healer 267 [pstyle:TOC]The Divine Anthropos 281 [pstyle:TOC]Refining the Religious Attitude 288 [pstyle:TOC]Love of the Infinite, Love of the Soul 290 [pstyle:TOC]Fear of the Descent into the Unconscious 296 [pstyle:TOC]Conscious Sacrifice and Discovery of the New Center 298 [pstyle:TOC]Gaining Honest Human Standpoint 303 [pstyle:TOC]The Metaphor of the Foot Wound 307 [pstyle:TOC]The Scathing Honesty of a Rotten Standpoint, Allowed In 311 [pstyle:TOC]Chapter 7: The Invaluable/Dangerous Heights: Inflation, Integration, and Incarnation 337 [pstyle:TOC]The Mingling of Human and Divine 342 [pstyle:TOC]Circulation of Psychic Energy among the Many Realms of Being 346 [pstyle:TOC]Coming Down from the Heavens 353 [pstyle:TOC]Emerging from the \[ct:Italic\]\[ct:Italic\]Preta\[ct:\]\[ct:\] Region 356 [pstyle:TOC]Getting Stuck in the Asura Region 362 [pstyle:TOC]Messages from the Animal Realm 367 [pstyle:TOC]Eros and the Wound: Razor[0x2019]s Edge between Inflation and Reductionism 369 [pstyle:TOC]Ascent, Incarnational Choice, and Archetypal Defenses 373 [pstyle:TOC]Dissolving the Ego[0x2019]s Unconscious Defenses 377 [pstyle:TOC] Encountering the Divine in Matter 381 [pstyle:TOC]Collective Application of these Images 391 [pstyle:TOC]The Secret Alchemical Stone Has Its Own Properties 392 [pstyle:TOC]Stone and the Protective Screen between the Worlds: Stone as the Mediator 393 [pstyle:TOC]Integration Brings to Life the Invaluable Inner Heretic, and the [0x201C]Orphan Stone[0x201D] 396 [pstyle:TOC]Yogic Consciousness, Experience of the \[ct:Italic\]\[ct:Italic\]Unus Mundus\[ct:\]\[ct:\] Mysteries 398 [pstyle:TOC]Rebirth of Consciousness: Unus Mundus and the New Fruits of Sun and Moon 000 [pstyle:TOC]Bibliography 000 [pstyle:TOC]Index 000 [pstyle:TOC]About the Author 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Subconsciousness.
Dream interpretation.
Alchemy.