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Podcast: Living the Inner Life
Episode: 027: Inner Alchemy: Transform the Gold Within | Living the Inner Life
Description: The metal Alchemists of long ago sought to change lead into gold by subjecting it to heat, chemicals, distillation and various experiments in the laboratory. We also do this in the kitchen when we mix flour, sugar, egg, water and a few other things, subject them to heat, and wind up with a cake. Same with the inner life. Dr. Carl Jung drew a parallel between these alchemical operations and the psychological process of transformation. He called it Individuation - becoming whole, complete, healed. Many believed that this is the real truth behind the Alchemists - that they were...