Alchemergy Dennis William Hauck

This short poem captures all the operations of alchemical transformation in one vision. I wrote it when I was 17 in 1962, before I knew anything about alchemy. It was selected to be included in the album "Sound of Poetry" by the National Library of Poetry and published in 1992. 

The Emerald Tablet—an ancient document that contains the essence of the alchemical teachings—has had an important influence on many Western spiritual and religious traditions. Ostensibly concerned with turning base metals into gold, alchemy was in fact dedicated to transforming the lead of self into the gold of spirit. This brilliant history of alchemy traces its sources back to ancient Egypt, and presents alchemy as a useful, practical system of self-transformation. Each of the seven steps of alchemical transformation is explained, with hands-on techniques and exercises, treating alchemy as a living discipline for achieving a spiritual awakening.
from The Emerald Tablet: Alchemy for Personal Transformation (Penguin 1999). Paperback and Kindle editions available on Amazon.

This is actually an audition tape for the “Oprah Winfrey Show” when my book The Emerald Tablet: Alchemy for Personal Transformation was being considered for Oprah’s Book Club. Unfortunately, the producers thought it was a bit “over the top” for Oprah’s viewers, and listening to it today, I would have to agree. But it is one of my best efforts to explain the origins and power of the ancient teachings of Hermes and how they evolved in alchemy, literature, religion, and science. Topics include the Emerald Tablet, the history of Balinas (Apollonius of Tyana), the seven operations and the Emerald Formula, the planetary archetypes, and how they apply to personal transformation. There is also an active imagination session with Thoth in which he explains the nature of the universe.  However controversial the ideas expressed in this reading are today, they represent the historical view and “One True Philosophy” that inspired the alchemists to so ardently pursue the Great Work. I have continued to research Thoth’s teachings in more recent books, including In the Mind of the Universe: The Monad and You! on Amazon at https://amzn.to/489vk5H

This is a sample reading from Chapter 1 of In the Mind of the Universe: The Monad and You! Order the book from https://amzn.to/489vk5H 

Real experiences of the Monad from historical sources, literature, and the personal experiences of the author.  The experiences share most of the following ten characteristics:
1) The experience begins in a state of non-duality or Oneness.
2) It seems to take place in a boundless space of pure warm light.
3) Everything is stripped away—no more ego, striving, or worldly attachments.
4) The basic dichotomy of “I” versus “other” is transcended.
5) There is a sense of original self or primal state of being in which just your pure centerless awareness or “default” presence remains.
6) It is “beyond thoughts” or exhibits the inability to have thoughts, and because of this, there is no fear.
7) There is a sense of eternity with no experience of time.
8) There is a feeling of complete knowledge or direct gnosis of reality.
9) The overall feeling is one of infinite security, serenity, and satisfaction.
10) In describing the experience to others, it remains paradoxical and ineffable. For a more information, please refer to my book "The Mind of the Universe: The Monad and You!" This video narrated by Cooper Monroe.
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The Basic Monadic Meditation from my book "In the Mind of the Universe: The Monad and You!" https://amzn.to/489vk5H  Read by Scott McCain. 
 
BASIC MONADIC MEDITATION INSTRUCTIONS
Step 1)  Disengage Physically. Delink from the world by turning off your electronic attachments to the outside world. Find a quiet room or put in earplugs and sit in a chair; don’t lie down. Keep your back comfortably straight and fold your hands in your lap. Be still. Focus on the feeling that your fully relaxed body is immovable in time and space. Time is slowing down and then stops; your awareness is focused on the static moment before you. Now, just relax and cultivate the silence in your body for a while.
Step 2)  Disengage Mentally. Extricate yourself mentally from the world by shutting off the verbal stream of consciousness in your own mind. With your eyes either closed or half-opened gazing in front of you, shut down your senses and ignore any outside noises. Remember, thoughts are things that accumulate and clutter up the mind. Halt that process, and just stop thinking—break the chain of thoughts—but still remain aware. Become comfortably numb to the world, and then remain stubbornly in this immovable, timeless state of mind. Pay attention only to the silence it creates.
Step 3)  Monadic Awareness. Just continue resting in this timeless present moment and try to keep your mind quiet and immovable. Try not to be self-conscious about what you are doing, including any expectations about this exercise. Don’t actively think of anything—if a thought intrudes, don’t follow it out. Let thoughts dissolve on their own.  Instead of thinking, focus on the feeling of empty awareness—your “original mind” free from all content and distractions. Just Be—just exist without thoughts in the pure monadic light that surrounds you. You are becoming only pure awareness. You are That. You are That-You-Are, and nothing else.