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Alchemical Lightwork: The Gathering Light Course
with Dr. Arthur Versluis
regular price: $299.00 ——on sale now for $49.00
Gathering Light is a unique online course hosted by Dr. Arthur Versluis, with contributions from clinical psychologist Robert Faas. This course is, as far as we know, completely unprecedented. In it, we’re going to offer you a very rare set of resources to explore alchemical practice for yourself. This course is organized for co-exploration. In it, we’re going to be developing our practice of light with contemplative images and texts from the Western alchemical tradition.
Alchemical Lightwork: Gathering Light is designed to complement the book Alchemical Lightwork: A Guide to Creating Cultures of Light and Spiritual Awakening by Dr. Arthur Versluis.
In Gathering Light, we’re going to provide the foundational practices of working with alchemical light and illumination, and give an overview of the journey through the major stages, which are associated with the colors black, white, yellow, and red. We will begin with the nature of our era and with the black. The first phase is recognizing what is called in the tradition the burdens we carry, the darkness that is to be dispelled by the light.
This is the first of several alchemical courses. The second course will be The Alchemical Couple, which also is directly linked to the Alchemical Lightwork book, and in it, we will explore male-female alchemical practice and the journey of the couple toward shared illumination, drawing on the alchemical images of the Rosarium Philosophorum, a series of images showing the stages of alchemical transformation and union.
Course topics include:
- what it means to be in a dark age
- how to navigate through the black or nigredo stage
- The different kinds and stages of alchemy
- how alchemy provides us with a map for understanding transformation and spiritual awakening
- weekly practices
- what a culture of light is
- illuminated individuals, couples, and communities
Both of us have many years of contemplative experience, and we look forward to exploring the practice of alchemical lightwork with you. Enjoy!
Becoming Conscious:
Discovering What It Means To Be Human
with Dr. Arthur Versluis
$299.00 $59.00
In Becoming Conscious, you’ll explore the humanities in fundamentally new ways, and in the process explore what it means to be truly human. Philosophy, literature, drama, poetry, art, nature: these are actually ways of exploring who we are, and the nature of our own consciousness. Join us in this unique course, consisting in seventeen full modules, with weekly experiential explorations. The course is designed to be taken over several months, but you can do it at your own pace. We’re making this course temporarily available at a steep discount from 299.00, for a nominal cost of 99.00 USD.
Course topics include:
- Becoming Conscious
- Rediscovering Meaning in Nature
- Working with Dreams
- The Consciousness Revolution
- Seeing Poetry Anew
- Seeing the World Anew
- Fiction in a New Light
- Hearing the Cosmos
- Experiencing Dramatic Life
- Understanding the Cosmos
- Realizing Our Nature
- Integrative Learning
- Toward A New Renaissance
- Meditation and Your Mind
- Conscious Life
The Short Way:
A Christian Mystical Path
with Dr. Arthur Versluis
$299.00 $59.00
The Short Way is a unique online course to explore mysticism, hosted by Dr. Arthur Versluis, with contributions from clinical psychologist Robert Faas. The Short Way is, as far as we know, completely unprecedented. In it, we offer you a very rare set of resources to explore mysticism for yourself. This course is organized for co-exploration. In it, you’ll be working with a very unusual, very clear and direct spiritual instruction in dialogue form by Jacob Böhme, an exceptional mystic who, near the end of his life, wrote this spiritual or heart advice for his own students and circle. A selection from this work of spiritual advice is accompanied each week by an image from Böhme’s work, and by video and audio discussion of Böhme’s advice as well as specific ways to engage in the spiritual practice being discussed. We might call this an exploratory, rather than simply a course, because what we’re engaging directly with what Böhme is pointing us toward. In this regard, what we’re doing here is fundamentally different than what happens in a university or college classroom, or in scholarly texts. The practice being introduced here is not found in academic or church settings, and yet it is, Böhme tells us, essential to how we spiritually awaken. We must engage in this path if we are to develop spiritually. How do we do that? What is the path? These are the kinds of practical questions that Böhme presents us with, and clearly and concisely answers. Both of us have many years of contemplative experience, and we look forward to exploring mysticism with you. The course is twelve modules, with weekly guided meditations, images, audio podcasts, and much more. It’s designed for three months, but you can take it at your own pace. On sale temporarily for only 99.00!
Course topics include:
- What is Mysticism?
- How to Begin
- Contemplative Alchemy
- Love and the Harrowing of Hell
- Breaking Through the Partition Wall
- Recognizing the Two Eyes
- Letting Go
- Life Beyond Death
- Energies and the Body of Light
- Illumination
- The Short Way
Creating a Sacred Garden
With Dr. Christopher McIntosh
$199.00 $49.00
This course is about creating a garden of sacred or symbolic meaning. We shall draw inspiration from examples of such gardens in various cultures, places and eras; we shall examine different ways of creating meaning, such as through ornaments, plants and the structure of the space; and we shall then look at how you can create your own symbolic garden, however large or small a space you may have.
Course topics include
- Crossing the Threshold
- The Language of Form
- Adding Symbols
- Plants and Their Symbolic Meaning
- Spirits of Place
- Creating Your Own Sacred Garden
- Further Investigation and Reading
