Effortful conscious action can be transformed into wu-wei.*
Edward Slingerland
Which of your strengths have you been under-deploying?**
James Clear
It turns out there are seven
alchemical “magicals”–^
Rather than with metals,
I see alchemy as part of Human development:
Conjunctio –
Living with contradictions and tensions.
Solutio –
Exploring by removing story elements to create a new life myth.
Sublimatio –
Developing and elevating some ignored talent.
Coagulatio –
Turning ideas into practices.
Calcinatio –
Embracing pressure to create substance.
Mortificatio –
Letting go and letting come.
Putrefactio –
Exploring with passion the extremes others consider to be ugly and unpleasant.
You probably imagined something in your life for each of these:
You are an alchemist.
*Edward Slingerland’s Trying Not To Try;
**James Clear’s 3-2-1 newsletter: On finding someone wonderful, emphasizing your strengths, and letting go;
^Richard Rohr’s The Tears Of Things.
THIN|SILENCE 