January/February 2024 Alchemical Voice
Happy New Year to all our readers! This is a spiritual magazine, non-religious. We have so many eye-opening articles for you this year. Here's a list of what we have in this publication. Sue Penney talks about spreading love and kindness and which crystals will work for you this season. Shaman John Sjovik has written a short article on How to Find the North Pole (sound familiar....?) He also has written a lovely thought provoking article called Betwixt and Between. Learn about how a Death Doula can help with Joannah Bishop. Hear about how special the Dogon tribe and the nommos are with Julie de Vere Hunt. Our lovely dream builder/life coach Carol Coggan talks about Energy, Vibration and Love. Energy Psychologist Martin Lewis explains what the Levels of Consciousness are. Our final article on the Ayurvedic doshas - Kapha by Claire Sparks. Jovi Hoonjan writes about what a Shaman Alchemist can offer.
Happy New Year to all our readers! This is a spiritual magazine, non-religious. We have so many eye-opening articles for you this year. Here's a list of what we have in this publication. Sue Penney talks about spreading love and kindness and which crystals will work for you this season. Shaman John Sjovik has written a short article on How to Find the North Pole (sound familiar....?) He also has written a lovely thought provoking article called Betwixt and Between. Learn about how a Death Doula can help with Joannah Bishop. Hear about how special the Dogon tribe and the nommos are with Julie de Vere Hunt. Our lovely dream builder/life coach Carol Coggan talks about Energy, Vibration and Love. Energy Psychologist Martin Lewis explains what the Levels of Consciousness are. Our final article on the Ayurvedic doshas - Kapha by Claire Sparks. Jovi Hoonjan writes about what a Shaman Alchemist can offer.
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<strong>Alchemical</strong> <strong>Voice</strong> - L2M - Issue 24<br />
Chickens and eggs<br />
They say a picture tells a thousand words. Maybe it<br />
does? Maybe a word tells a thousand pictures? What<br />
about a thought? A feeling? One triggers the other. Are<br />
they man-made? Or was spirit involved in the making?<br />
What triggers what? Chickens and eggs – which came<br />
first? What about thoughts and emotions? If you feel<br />
very sad, you might cry. What if you act in such a way<br />
that you deliberately induce yourself to bring tears to<br />
your eyes; will you feel sad, at least to some degree?<br />
What is the process when a thought manifests in a word<br />
and then in a physical manifestation? A memory<br />
embedded deep within your unconscious triggers a<br />
desire. It creates an active thought in your mind that in<br />
turn will influence you to take an action. This also works<br />
the other way around. An action will create a memory,<br />
with a feeling attached to it.<br />
What about an idea for a painting and the actual<br />
painting, with a canvas coated with pigment in an<br />
emulsion? The same painting might trigger an idea with<br />
the audience, to go home and pick up a brush and paint<br />
something new. And it goes back and forth, from idea to<br />
painting to a new idea and a new painting.<br />
The important thing here is that there is always an<br />
interface, some kind of bridge or connection between<br />
the one and the other.<br />
What constitutes the interface? Is there a biological /<br />
chemical process? In other cases may be an emotional /<br />
spiritual action and reaction. My main point is to<br />
highlight the magical or alchemical nature of the<br />
interface.<br />
Alchemy is about transmutation. You might say that an<br />
idea for a painting transmutes through an intellectual &<br />
emotional creative process into a physical manifestation<br />
in the form of paint on a canvas.<br />
What is really exciting here is that a person who sees<br />
the painting might experience a reverse process, trying<br />
to understand the creative mechanism that led to the<br />
painting. That way, the artist and the audience can meet<br />
spiritually in the elusive no-mans-land of the betwixt &<br />
between the idea and the work.<br />
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