Alchemy and the Mystical Experience

[Kiorionis]

Hmm.. To be honest, that doesn't sound much like a method. I meant do you try "Mental Vacancy" techniques or visualizations, in order to achieve your trance? Do you incorporate breathing rhythm into your method?

 

[Blacksmith]

Thinking like that so I have no method

recommend any method?

 

[Kiorionis]

I personally have found success with the methods of Franz Bardon: Thought Observation, Thought Control, and Mental Vacancy.
After mental vacancy is reached (the first step), then there is a lot of options for more active visualization techniques.

Here is a resource for that method: Initiation into Hermetics, by Franz Bardon.

 

[Blacksmith]

Do you have any other methods that you know of?
And what should I research to find methods

 

[Kiorionis]

The link I provided in the previous post is really all you need. There is such depth and power behind the observation, control and clearing of the Mind.

In my opinion, one day Bardon will be revered as a Saint, or at least something similar.

 

[Kiorionis]

Mr. Bumpsky bumpin the thread. Great tunes.

I’ve recently been having a “coming-back-to-Jesus” experience. But not Jesus, just the mystical.

It’s been slow and steady and very warming in my heart.

 

[Awani]

Has it been preceded by some sort of heartbreak or tragedy?

 

[Kiorionis]

I think the precedence for it was that I’ve been putting it off, keeping it down, which lead to an overheating in the heart.

 

[Mahavira]

Heat drives the work!

 

[ArgentSeeker]

I think the mystical experience and alchemy are inseparable, in-so-far as you include the term "mystical" to include the involvement of forces which are subject to conscious actors which are indispensable to perform alchemy, whether or not the practitioner knows it or not. The Stone can only be made by art, so to speak, and the art lies in identifying these subtle forces, capturing them successfully, and then using them correctly. It's an interplay between man and nature that requires man to know nature sufficiently well enough to manipulate it. It can't occur without knowledge, which is itself subject to consciousness. In a roundabout way, all mysticism has to deal with consciousness and perception, and it's via the broadening and refinement of consciousness that anything of note can be accomplished. You could say this is true of any field, be it science or mysticism. Of course, Hermeticism is called a sacred, or divine, science, so take that as you will.