Alchemy of Abundance: Aligning with the Energy of Desire to Manifest Your Highest Vision, Power, and Purpose
By Rick Jarow
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If so, you have already witnessed what Rick Jarow calls the "Alchemy of Abundance"—the fusion of internal forces and external experience that transmutes the "base metal of a stagnant life" into the gold of full and open participation in every unfolding moment.
In Alchemy of Abundance, Jarow reveals the miracle that happens to you when you align your inner energies—your passion, creativity, attention, and will—with the power of the universe itself to make manifest your unique purpose. Includes in-depth exercises and guided visualizations to strengthen your faith in yourself, cultivate patience and generosity, and bring your goals into harmony with the plan the universe has for you.
Highlights:
- Creating your "Mandala of Manifestation"—a powerful tool that will clarify and focus what you want to come into being
- Fourteen guided visualizations for learning to attend to your body, your vocation, your relationships, your money, and much more
Rick Jarow
Rick Jarow, Ph.D., is a Visiting Professor of History of Religion at Vassar College and former Mellon Fellow in the Humanities at Columbia University. He is a practicing alternative career counselor and is the author of In Search of the Sacred as well as numerous articles and audiotapes. His seminars on Career and Soul have been given at Columbia University's Career Development Seminar, Interface in Boston, The New York Open Center, the Connecticut State Council on the Arts, and internationally in Canada, Italy, Germany, and Eastern Europe. He lives in Warwick, NY.
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Alchemy of Abundance - Rick Jarow
grace.
INTRODUCTION to the ART of MANIFESTATION
A number of years ago, in a dream, I found myself on a long search with two elders, one on each side of me. We had been seeking the crown jewels
and had entered a deep cavern where I discovered a large pool filled with clear golden ghee—the clarified butter used for ritual offerings in classical India. I knelt down and peered into the pool, and there I saw the jewels, shimmering under the surface. I reached down with trembling excitement, when suddenly the elders on each side simultaneously ordered me to stop. They informed me that these were not the jewels we needed and that I had to return to my own land and engage in contemplative prayer.
This big dream,
as C.G. Jung might have labeled it, became a call to the Alchemy of Abundance, directing me—after years of travel and study in Europe, India, and the Middle East; after initiations and long terms of practice in various yogic and healing traditions; and after years of intellectual pursuits in the philosophy and aesthetics of religion—to return home. Home
meant many things: returning to the roots of Western tradition (after all, the three of us were enacting the search of the Magi for the Christ) and returning to the heart of prayer and to the soil, the humus (the root of the word humility
). I was called to my world of the Hudson Valley and to a spiritual path that would be non-different from everyday life.
Yet, when we turn toward home, we hold all the energies of all the places we have been. We weave them back into the tapestry of our experience and they enrich our communities and ourselves in a new way. This program, then, is the fruit of years of work and an ever-deepening intuition that our unique place in time demands a unique vision: one that integrates the great insights and traditions from all times and places with the here and now. To put it simply, no major world religion was ever founded in or upon a democracy, and the rise of the individual and the great American experiment of the pursuit of happiness—predicated upon the freedom of conscience—demands that each of us walk the earth in our own way. This is true abundance: to cower before no one and no thing, to honor the life we have been given, and to dare to open to our fullness. At the same time, we are asked to walk together, to open to one another with our compassion, and to perceive and create forms of connection that keep us related without sacrificing the freedom we have gained at such great cost.
If abundance honors the dignity, goodness, and value of the individual, then alchemy—as one of the great disciplines at the root of Western culture—honors the collective. I use alchemy
here, not in the sense of some arcane esoteric lore, but in the way that Jung, archetypal psychologist James Hillman, and other depth psychologists have construed it: that the journey of purifying base metal into gold is an inner one, organically ordered by the wisdom of the psyche through its unfolding in the life of the individual.
I am using alchemy
then to denote an inherent and authentic process of self-realization present in our cultural milieu, one that need not be imposed upon a person, but rather one that unfolds through the interaction of inner imagery and outer experience, the fruit of which is pure living wisdom, the philosopher’s stone.
The hermetic, alchemical teachings, in fact, offer us the richest body of spiritual practice developed in the West, and we owe our modern interest in depth psychology and astrology to them. Moreover, alchemical teachings are our own equivalent to the Tantric traditions of the East as the Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche once remarked, calling Alchemy the Tantra of the West.
Indeed, the practice of abundance may itself be a part of the evolution of our own Tantric tradition: one that does not get caught up in organizations but that honors the soil upon which we stand, the unique situation of every person, and the mysterious fusion of opposites—masculine and feminine, compassion and wisdom—as the core of the Great Work.
The modern alchemist may not be holed up in a laboratory, but he or she understands that the true field of experimentation, the alembic, or vessel, where the work is done is within the self, and that the self
is not some abstract entity above and beyond the world but is squarely within the world—within everything and everyone. Enlightenment, then, is not conceived of as an ultimate state
but as the ongoing reality of this moment: the intersection of time and timeless that obliterates neither but opens to a rich panoramic vista of teeming life as divinity itself: the ongoing experience of abundance.
This program is about realizing this abundance in our lives. It is about creating pathways to participate fully and consciously in the Great Work
of alchemical transformation. Through the guided explorations and working with the zodiacal mandala, you will witness the ongoing fusion of dreams and archetypes with the most ordinary and practical of situations. You will understand and experience your own unique ability to generate well-being in every aspect of your life and to share it with others.
The core practice here, akin to the alchemical distillation of gold, is known as manifestation,
bringing the deepest, purist expression of your life into visible form. As with Tantra, there is an understanding that all that is necessary to realize your full potential is already present. You are simply asked to deal consciously with everything that is happening in your life as your practice of abundance, wholeheartedly and nonjudgmentally. As you will see in this program, by learning to trust the flow of creativity that naturally moves through your life, you will forge profound connections with everything and everyone in your world; you will come home to the humus, the soil, of your own daily life and discover a level of abundance that has always been and ever will sustain you.
Very often, when people hear about abundance
and manifestation,
they think about getting what they want, and what they want is magic and miracles. One challenge in Alchemy of Abundance is to