the Alchemical Coniunctio:: A Chronicle of Self Realization and Integration Psychic Opposites

The alchemists called it the mysterium coniunctionis - the mystery of the conjunction - and they said it could not be completed in a single lifetime. They were describing the union of the masculine and feminine principles within a single psyche: not a romantic achievement, not a philosophical concept, but a specific interior process that transforms the nature of the psyche that undergoes it, producing what the tradition called the Rebis - the psychological totality that contains and transcends both of the forces that generated it. The Alchemical Coniunctio is an account of this process from the inside. Written by a practitioner who has gone far enough into the work to bring back a usable map, the book traces the arc of the interior coniunctio from its preconditions - the tempering of the masculine, the genuine encounter with the Anima in her three aspects, the healing of the wounds that prevent genuine union - through the embodied dimension of the work that most accounts of the coniunctio are unwilling to address directly: the specific quality of sacred union between genuine partners whose interior work has prepared them for contact with what the alchemists called the psychoid field, the layer of reality in which the interior and the exterior are no longer separate systems. The book is honest about what it is: an account of a process that is still underway, written from far enough along to be genuinely useful, not from the position of claimed completion. What it offers is not a destination but a direction - and the specific, precise, hard-won knowledge of what the journey actually requires and what it actually produces.

Pagina's: 72, Paperback, Independently published