“How the Alchemists Meditated: The Ancient Roots of Spiritual Alchemy” by Dennis William Hauck

"How the Alchemists Meditated: The Ancient Roots of Spiritual Alchemy" by Dennis William Hauck

"Compiled by a leading researcher in the field, this is the first book to document the actual meditations used by alchemists. The author also provides considerable evidence that psycho-spiritual alchemy was practiced many centuries before the Renaissance, contrary to what some modern academics believe.

A primary tool in the work of the alchemists was a unique kind of meditation based on the light of the One Mind. They gradually learned how to work with this light to discover the "First Matter"—of objects, their own mental states, and their very souls—and transmute them into something new and more perfect. Thousands of years ago, alchemists realized these same energies are at work within our own minds and bodies, and they began to develop a physico-spiritual technology based on the universal principles of transformation.

The mystery of the cosmos is something we all sense at some time in our lives. And most of us share the same deep yearning to connect to the energies behind creation and change. That is the true source of alchemy. Or, in the words of Albert Einstein: "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science."