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This was a quick 1-day read. I like Mantak Chia and his work on transmuting energies. Some Perennialist thinkers posit that in this era, seeking transcendence isn't enough due to how dense our corporeal existences are, that we must also learn how to harness and transmute certain energies into something higher as part of our journey, that we must be active and not just contemplative. I've started adding the Inner Smile technique to my daily practice and I actually find it exhausting. Maybe my chi is weak, or maybe I don't yet have control over it... I feel such an intense globe of golden light in the center of my forehead, then I move it all around my head and down into my neck and by the time I reach my heart and lungs area, I'm exhausted and having a hard time keeping the "inner smile" "light" together and potent. Another potential issue is I've been doing this late in the evenings when I'm probably quite tired. Maybe incorporating it sometime during the day would be more ideal. Mantak recommends upon waking... 

And then just to keep with following that golden thread that beckons me onward and upward with such persistency, I'm back into Evola, this time delving into alchemy and the Hermetic philosophy which I must say I become more and more intrigued with the more I'm able to learn and 'get.' It's the feeling of a whole new world awaiting you, you can see it off in the distance and sense how it will be, you know it's in your future, you're just not there yet.

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 I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All. --Plotinus

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 A new book and a new knitting project, too- finally learning cabling!

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With Fulcanelli popping up twice for me in the last week - once while listening to this podcast episode, and then a few days later behind glass in a locked bookcase in a used book shop, the first American edition, with a hefty price tag - I figured it was finally time to delve into that mystery. This ought to be fun.

"The secret of alchemy is this: there is a way of manipulating matter and energy so as to produce what modern scientists call 'a field of force.' The field acts on the observer and puts him in a privileged position vis-à-vis the universe. From this position he has access to the realities which are ordinarily hidden from us by time and space, matter and energy. This is what we call 'The Great Work'."

"...the vital thing is not the transmutation of metals but that of the experimenter himself."

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A new book for a new season

 I haven't finished the Bhagavad Gita yet, in fact I'm barely three-quarters of the way through, but I did finish Little House on the Prairie Volume 1, so a new "fiction" to pair with the Gita.

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Currently reading:

Little House on the Prairie, Vol. 1

and still making my way through the Bhagavad Gita, translated by Prabhupada