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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Disclaimer
Contents
Introduction
Part One: Modern-Day Alchemy
Chapter 1: Why Alchemy Now?
An Alchemical Meeting
What Is Alchemy?
Historical Origins
Alchemy Today
An Invitation to Alchemical Healing
Chapter 2: Repairing a Broken Marriage
Wholeness
The Divine Couple
The Great Divorce
The Cracking
Healing as a Return to Wholeness
Chapter 3: The Connecting Link of Imagination and the Soul
Coyote Song
The Subtle Body
Continuing the Journey
Chapter 4: The Alchemical Quest
Beginning with Starlight
The Self
Entelechy
The Individuation Process
Putting It into Practice—Listening to the Heart
Margaret's Simple Heart Meditation
Moving It Over Practice
Chapter 5: Inner Work = Outer Change
Reversing the Light
Inner Work
You Are Wired for Self-Awareness
Practicing the Pause
Practicing the Pause
Inner and Outer Alchemy
The Irruption of Integrality
Part Two: Entering the Laboratory
Chapter 6: The Keys to Your Laboratory
The Laboratory
Find the Truth from Within Your Own Being
The First Key
As Above, So Below
The Second Key
Faith
The Third Key
Deep Listening
The Fourth Key
Imaginal Sight
The Fifth Key
Inner Sensing
The Sixth Key
Prima Materia
The Seventh Key
Chapter 7: Archetypes
Night Vision
What is an Archetype?
Recognizing Their Presence
Relating to Archetypes
Making It Real: Ritual and Practice
Chapter 8: Turning the Wheel of Life
Agents of Transformation
The Wheel of Life
Spinning the Wheel
Chapter 9: The Alchemical Medicine Cabinet
Fuchsia
A Different Kind of Knowing
Stirring the Life Force/Touching the Soul
The Alchemical Healing Medicine Cabinet
Chapter 10: Points and Portals
A Doorway Opens
Anything That Stirs the Qi
The Spirit of the Point
Engaging the Spirit of the Point
Before You Begin
Water
Wood
Fire
Earth
Metal
Conception Vessel
Governing Vessel
Five Basic Alchemical Healing Protocols
Chapter 11: Recovering the World of Your Dreams
Living the Dream
The Alchemical Attitude—Befriending the Dream
Dream Work Basics
Getting Started
What If You Don't Dream?
Spirit Bear and the Ad Man's Alchemical Healing Journey
Part Three: Discovering Gold
Chapter 12: The Alchemy of Gender
The Inner Partner
The Alchemical Marriage
Anima/Animus
Moving Beyond the Limits of Duality
Cinnabar
A Four-Part Model of Gender
Chapter 13: Treasuring Darkness
Diving into the Depths
Healing the Soul of Our Time
Nigredo
Black
The Nekyia or Night Sea Journey
The Mysterious Pass
The Dark Goddess
Revisioning Death
Returning Current
Conclusion: A New Story of Healing
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Medicinal Sources
Flower Essences
Essential Oils
Reader's Guide Available
Bibliography
To Our Readers
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