July/August 2023 Alchemical Voice

Stretching and expanding your world
When I woke up this morning, I felt like stretching to my
full length. My cat does that every morning and I
wanted to emulate her behaviour. Yet, all of a sudden I
felt a weird and uncanny limitation.
When I tried to stretch to my full capacity, I felt that life
presented too small a room with not enough space. As I
tried to extend and become fuller, I felt an irritation
coming over me. It was as if the world was not big
enough, as if 3 dimensions were too few, as if time – as
we see it – was too limited.
Maybe I need to adopt an alchemical approach to
stretching? Sometimes, you need to change venue in
order to become that which you were meant to become.
I feel like a piano player who realizes that there are not
enough keys on the piano. I need a broader scale and
more notes. By journeying into non-ordinary reality, any
framework is lifted and boundaries disappear. I am most
of all the spirit aspect of myself. The great beyond is
where I can find the unlimited space that I need for my
full expansion. However, I do not have to move behind
the veil to accomplish that; it is enough if I do a little
sideways shimmy and a temporary shift has taken place.
Life is movement and you are in motion. Pay attention
to the importance of balance and harmony as you move.
Harmony – a sense of calm
Harmony can be expressed as an aspiration to allow the
scales to be balanced. That does not mean a continuous
balance, each moment in time. Just as a broken clock
will show the correct time on fourteen occasions every
week, a wobbling set of scales will be in balance – albeit
just briefly and unstable – once every time it swings
from this way to that way.
Sometimes aspiration can be of greater importance than
realization.
You need to be careful with harmony. Does it mean that
you need to match every good thought with an evil
one? Or what is harmony? In art, harmony is often to
follow the rules of The Golden Ratio.
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