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Alchemy of Abundance: Aligning With the Energy of Desire to Manifest Your Highest Vision, Power, and Purpose
Through his internationally acclaimed anti-career workshops, Rick Jarow has helped thousands transform their work lives by aligning with the simple energy of desire. Now with Alchemy of Abundance, Jarow invites us to use this ever-present energy to catalyze change in our relationships, our creative pursuits, our financial well-being, and more. Working with 12 specific chambers of abundance, readers learn to focus their passion and desire to create immediate changes in their lives. From friendships to romantic love, from material wealth to spiritual aspirations, Jarow shows how personal abundance is deeply influenced by the world around us, and how intention and emotions work together to transmute the base metal of a stagnant life into the gold of inner fulfillment and measurable success. Drawing upon more than 25 years of practice, study, and teaching in the worlds spiritual traditions, Jarow offers a rich universe of archetypes that leads the way to a visionary encounter with our deepest desires and potentials. In-depth diagnostic practices and meditations provide a daring exploration of each of the 12 chambers, awakening readers to what is truly calling for attention in their lives. Finally, readers will learn how each room holds a key to abundance, an embodied practice of alignment, to help them begin to manifest their most authentic intentions in the physical world.
75 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2005
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January 3, 2015
Not my favorite of Jarow's sudiobooks. I was actually very disappointed there was not more Alchemical imagery in this, instead of his mount olympus visualization. There are some good ideas however.
June 21, 2016
Nothing new here that others haven't said before. If you buy the book on kindle no audios for the guided meditations or even a link to access. Disappointed.
March 13, 2015
In The Alchemy of Abundance, Jarow has created a series of visualization exercises based on the wheel of the Zodiac. He believes that through the use of these meditations and the creation of your own wheel with your own life themes that the practitioner/reader will take steps towards self realization or, the goal of the alchemists, change the dross matter of your unawakened spirit into the gold of the enlightened ones.
It's interesting to me how different spiritual teachers take the same material, use their own symbolism, and construct completely individual exercises, all towards the same goal. These meditations reminded me strongly of John Michael Greer's Paths of Wisdom or Ted Andrews' Pathworking and the Tree of Life, except that Jarow uses the Zodiac wheel as the pattern to guide the visualizations and Greer/Andrews use the Tree of Life as the background.
I personally prefer the constructs based on the Tree because the Zodiac is included in its own branch along with a bunch of other things, but, if one is going to chose a symbol out of all of them, the Zodiac is a strong one. It is included in the realm of Chokmah or wisdom. The circle can represent the world, the completed self, the seasons, the day, a clock... it has so many different possible meanings. Jarow left a lot of wiggle room for individualization and I think that's a key part to any spiritual practice. No matter who you learn something from or what it is- be it visualization, formula, thought pattern- you must make it your own to get the greatest benefit from it. That's completely possible with this program.
The strongest chapter in this book is Gateways to the Temple of Beauty (Chapter 2). Jarow breaks down the complex idea of alchemy into different practices or life situations. He shows how an abstract spiritual belief system can be incorporated into daily practice, work, love life, most anything that the reader will encounter. His language is direct, clear, and unshrouded in obscure references or double meanings. Alchemy can get so bogged down in the words- it's refreshing to find a text that is simple to understand and put into practice.
If you like any of the books by John Michael Greer, Ted Andrews, Ophiel, or Lon Milo DuQuette, then you will probably enjoy The Alchemy of Abundance.
It's interesting to me how different spiritual teachers take the same material, use their own symbolism, and construct completely individual exercises, all towards the same goal. These meditations reminded me strongly of John Michael Greer's Paths of Wisdom or Ted Andrews' Pathworking and the Tree of Life, except that Jarow uses the Zodiac wheel as the pattern to guide the visualizations and Greer/Andrews use the Tree of Life as the background.
I personally prefer the constructs based on the Tree because the Zodiac is included in its own branch along with a bunch of other things, but, if one is going to chose a symbol out of all of them, the Zodiac is a strong one. It is included in the realm of Chokmah or wisdom. The circle can represent the world, the completed self, the seasons, the day, a clock... it has so many different possible meanings. Jarow left a lot of wiggle room for individualization and I think that's a key part to any spiritual practice. No matter who you learn something from or what it is- be it visualization, formula, thought pattern- you must make it your own to get the greatest benefit from it. That's completely possible with this program.
The strongest chapter in this book is Gateways to the Temple of Beauty (Chapter 2). Jarow breaks down the complex idea of alchemy into different practices or life situations. He shows how an abstract spiritual belief system can be incorporated into daily practice, work, love life, most anything that the reader will encounter. His language is direct, clear, and unshrouded in obscure references or double meanings. Alchemy can get so bogged down in the words- it's refreshing to find a text that is simple to understand and put into practice.
If you like any of the books by John Michael Greer, Ted Andrews, Ophiel, or Lon Milo DuQuette, then you will probably enjoy The Alchemy of Abundance.
February 2, 2010
Book and CD. Haven't gotten a chance to listen to the CD, but did enjoy the book. Quickie read, with a typically positive message.
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