As a leader, you've already come SO FAR and done SO MUCH. And yet, with all this progress that you've made, maybe you still feel the tug of something missing.
You might have the sensation of being in bondage to cash, of there never being more-than-enough... a feeling made more acute by pandemic-time worries.
You might feel creatively stuck, like your most impressive feats no longer even interest you anymore.
Worst, you might feel alone, like the people around you don't fully "get" you at the level you yearn to be "got."
These "plateau" kind of stuck sensations happen for all powerful leaders and influencers as they grow out of previous ways of being.
Why, I wondered for a long time, why is it not possible for me to reach all my aims in life while remaining entirely horizontal on a curvy velvet couch, being fanned with giant ostrich feathers by well-oiled Roman soldiers?
Gradually, though, an idea struck into my head: what if, instead of ritually berating myself and giving up when I forget or just slack off on an important new habit or daily practice...
... what if I just did a simple renewal ritual instead, and then pick up where I left off?
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I find keeping an Alchemical Journal so vastly important and so useful that I've decided to teach about it more widely.
The practice is simple, and maybe even "obvious" to anyone who's been around a few occult or self-development blocks, but the truly magnificent power of it comes when one commits to it over time... and sustains that commitment.
Here's a little something I wrote in response to a brilliant woman leader who felt a bit down and powerless when a guy she's dating didn't text her back. From my long single years I sure know what that "waiting for him to text me back" feels like, ugh. So intense.
And from those years I learned a thing or two, so this is what I told her: The fact that he hasn't texted you is a testament to your kinky shadow power to generate a hot sensation of rejection.
When an alchemist of the psyche wants to transform themselves into a magician capable of re-ordering their reality into beauty and bounty... they perform solve et coagula operations on their own being.
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The biggest taboo is waking up to direct knowledge and conversation of your Self's divine immortality, because then you can't be easily controlled via fear of death.
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