The Destruction of Division and the Alchemical Way

Is increased polarity and division actually a positive step in
times to come? Division. Divisive. Disagreeable. These are
words that have found too common a place in our societal vernacular
at present. Mostly driven by media headlines, political discourse,
and thus everyday folk who not only speak the words but act in
accord with its message, division has taken a precedent in the
justifying of a position and the anchoring of identity. Though the
process of taking a side: left/right, conservative/liberal,
gay/straight appears to be an all too natural dimension of being
human, those who have sought a different path - one of
enlightenment - have tapped into a preternatural philosophy that
goes well beyond the limits of the 3D. In alchemical tradition,
there are seven known stages of spiritual growth: Calcination,
Dissolution, Separation, Conjunction, Fermentation, Distillation,
and Coagulation. It is the seventh stage that we are concerned
about here for purposes of examining the dynamic we'll call
"division." The following beautifully distills this stage called
coagulation: The meeting point between two opposites such as the
spiritual self and raw matter, heaven and hell, and life and death,
is the point where existence become self-aware. This is the moment
when our lives are without duality; when matter becomes
spirit, or the spirit is manifested in material form. In the
stage of Coagulation, the physical universe is not separate from
the mind or spiritual reality; it is a reflection of it. Alchemy’s
greatest achievement is to create an interrelationship between mind
and matter, between self and world. I find it quite curious, and
frankly intriguing that we are living at a time when dichotomous
thinking is at a fever pitch. In my book, Conscious Musings and
specifically in one of its chapters entitled: Dichotomy of
Consciousness and the Precipice of Change. It begins... I recall
waxing philosophical many years ago with a friend about the
prospect of one day seeing a world where extreme opposites will
co-exist; where humans will engage in the worst behavior and the
best. Apathy will sit side-by-side with empathy; greed with giving,
and so on. But then we reasoned, just as the darkest times are
usually an indicator of the birth of a brighter day, such will be
the case when the dichotomy of consciousness reaches its peak.
Needless to say, we've reached a tipping point of division. And one
that appears to have created a mass cesspool (divided in two, of
course) of social and political correctness, religious ideologies,
racial abhorrence, and the like. Considering this seemed
unrelenting backdrop, where might an alchemical methodology come in
to play? In the stage of coagulation, an individual (or group)
understands that the act of taking notice of the existence of
opposites is part of the process of discernment. He or she can then
transmute two discrete aspects of reality and literally create a
third. A blurred but unified reality. The absence of division and
opposites. The oneness of all life. Though I would surely question
the notion that the masses who are currently entrenched in divided
reality have consciously taken any steps to graduate from the six
previous alchemical stages leading to a point of coagulation, on
some deeply unconscious level, perhaps we are all aware that a true
and unequivocal union of self and others requires all of these
steps and at this deep level, we are co-existing and co-creating as
alchemists. When and if we can reason that this may actually
be taking place, division begins to gray, and magically the
polarization of reality will melt away. In this context, just maybe
we've already reached the threshold of the destruction of
division! Relevant links from this post/podcast: Article: Seven
Stages of Spiritual Alchemy - LonerWolf.com Podcast: Neil
Kramer - Kramer On Grimerica We are the alchemists. We have the
ability to turn scrap metal into gold,