Fundamentals of Spiritual Alchemy: Live Workshop

by Caroline Myss

This series, recorded live at the Association for Humanistic Psychology seminar in Miami Beach, Florida, in June 2000, focuses on identifying the influences in our lives that keep us from making changes, and understanding the wisdom that the ancients of the Mystery Schools of the Middle Ages had . . . teaching the insight necessary to begin changing your “lead” issues to “gold” (changing the “bad” in our lives to “good”).       Caroline delves into this rich field of inquiry by describing how you can begin to become a “Spiritual Alchemist”—being able to change the way you look at yourself and your contract through the chakra system—universal patterns of consciousness that influence your psychological spiritual development.       As part of this fascinating discussion, Caroline even illustrates the alchemical concepts present in the story of The Wizard of Oz!  

Runtime: 3 hours, 36 minutes

Genres: Spirituality, Self Help, Nonfiction

4 pages, Audio CD

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Caroline Myss was born on December 2, 1952 in Chicago, and grew up with her parents, and two brothers, one elder and one younger, in the Melrose Park, Illinois neighbourhood near Chicago. Caroline was raised a Catholic, and attended the Mother Guerin High School, River Grove, Illinois, run by the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from the Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Indiana in 1974, and started her career in journalism in Chicago.

In the course of her career, she interviewed Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D., the author of the famous book, On Death and Dying, which inspired her to pursue a Master's degree in theology from Mundelein College, Chicago, which she completed in 1979. She also claims to hold a Ph.D in "intuition and energy medicine", but the degree was granted by Greenwich University, a now-defunct correspondence school that was never accredited to deliver higher education awards by any recognized government accreditation authority.

She started giving medical intuitive readings in 1982 and co-founded a small New Age publishing company, Stillpoint Publishing in Walpole, New Hampshire, where she also worked as an editor in 1983, next she began consulting with holistic doctors, which in 1984, led to her extensive collaboration with Dr. Norman Shealy, an M.D. schooled at Harvard, and the founder of the American Holistic Medical Association, with whom she later co-authored, "Aids: Passageway to Transformation," in 1987, followed by "The Creation of Health: The Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Responses that Promote Health and Healing," in 1988. Deriving from her practice as a medical intuitive, she started writing books, in the field of energy medicine, and healing, all of which became New York Times Best Sellers.[18] Starting with Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing (1996), which overlapped seven Christian sacraments with seven Hindu chakras and the Kabbalah's Tree of Life to create a map of the human "energy anatomy"; this was followed by Why People Don't Heal and How They Can (1998), which explored the reasons people do not heal through her concept of "woundology." Her next book, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential (2002) dealt with the issue of finding "Life Purpose," while describing Sacred Contracts as "a set of assignments that our soul had formed around before incarnation". She has since appeared on the The Oprah Winfrey Show numerous times.

By 2000, she discontinued doing private medical intuitive readings, and instead started teaching it, through her workshops, seminars, radio shows and guided tours. She tours internationally as a speaker on spirituality and mysticism, and lives in Oak Park, Illinois, near Chicago. In 2003, she started the Caroline Myss Educational Institute, with Wisdom University in San Francisco.

Her 2007 book, "Entering the Castle" draws upon the writings of Saint Teresa of Ávila, a 16th century Carmelite nun, who wrote her most important work, The Interior Castle, towards the end of her life.

Reviews

[Martha · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm finished with Fundamentals of Spiritual: Excellent book. Carolyn takes her learning's and teachings to a new level. I liked her description of events and steps that give energy a tangle form. This may not be a book for everyone; but it truly spoke to me as I am exploring the practical application of spiritual truths into the physical world.

Re-read the book today and found even more nuggets of truth to apply to my life.

[Beth E · Rating 4 out of 5]

Always enjoy Caroline Myss books. This one was very informative about the splitering of our spiritual self - all the places we let our energy reside rather than in ourselves. Very good call to action at the end about the questions to ask yourself as it pertains to each chakra and how to draw all the energy back in. Make lead into gold.

[Laura Gilfillan]

We come here for a purpose, have certain roles to play to gain what we need to, and our challenge is to learn how to turn lead into gold (in a metaphorical sense) to make effective use of our energies.

[Filippa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fantastic and insightful! Would recommend!

[Elena Rego · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a fantastic wealth of information worthy of listening to a few times. The only issue I had is that this is an audio 'book' of a class she taught, which made it a bit challenging when it was clear she was referring to illustrations on a screen or board. That said, if you have a working understanding of the chakra system and which chakra is where, you should be fine.

This information is definitely something we should all be working with in our personal journeys.

[Pat Edwards · Rating 4 out of 5]

I know I will not agree with everything an author like Myss says, but I feel if I can get at least one good thing from it, the book has been good. Myss always finds ways to have me look from a new point-of-view. In this book, it was the aspect of ritual in my life.

[Nicholas Gurreri]

great cd with meditation