Modern Alchemy with James Arthur Ray and Bersabeh Ray

In the last episodes we’ve been discussing first what the prime objective of all alchemical traditions is: entitled The Great Work. In other words, to become God in human form or more specifically to reflect God in your body and mind through your human form and into the world. While very few individuals we meet even think much less contemplate these high ideals, the fact is that for this reason and this reason only are you here. In the traditions they maintain that prior to coming into this lifetime you meet with your own higher council, and you decide what you need to learn, what you need to heal, and what you need to accomplish in this current incarnation. Upon exit you meet with them once again and check in to see how well you’ve done.  If you fail, your mission you’re recycled and sent back in once again to go through another entirely different life and to play the same game over again. I don’t know about you, but this is incentive enough for me to do everything possible in this life to ensure that I accomplish and become all I can accomplish and become. If you pass and did a great job then you are rewarded with a new life with new challenges or possibly if you have truly evolved to a very high level of awareness. You move on toward greater adventures. Now who really knows for sure if this is true… but again for us we’d rather be safe than sorry. How about you?

Are you adding value to the world or just seeking it for yourself? This is a fundamental question in all alchemical and Hermetic traditions.  We’re told that we’ve been created in the image and likeness of God. We know that God is a creative being, and therefore so too are you. But think about this: God is the life force; and God therefore must create more comprehensive life. You cannot create anything other than its own nature.  Compassion cannot create hatred. Gratitude cannot create jealousy. Expansion cannot create contraction. And life cannot create death. Life always seeks more life. And that life is comprehensive. Not specific but general. Meaning good for self, good for others, and good for the entire world. That’s the measure of anything you choose to do. Ask yourself: is this good for self, good for others, and good for the entire world?

In this episode weeks we talk about "The Rules of Money" with David Henning We just met David Henning a couple of weeks ago at a large conference in Atlanta for Vantage Financial. Bersabeh and I had a presentation on day 2 of the conference and on day one the MC brought some high performers on stage and David spoke for a short moment about current events—he was the only one who shared that kind of information, and it was impressive. Bersabeh leaned over and said, “I really like that guy.” Tune in and learn the rules of money that apply to you. David will help you understand them so that it works for you instead of against you! Connect with David here: https://www.instagram.com/davidhenningmindset/

Crypto currency is a controversial topic. Do you have questions like most do? Do you understand how our current monetary system works? (most don’t). Join Bersabeh and I and our special Spotlight guest Tyler Reed. Tyler has been in the industry for years and can answer these questions and many more! This is not something any of us can afford to ignore. Connect with Tyler: X - @TheRealTRTalks TikTok - @realtycrypto Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW21ukti-GxvezZL4xYeSyg

Gareth Icke is an activist, a singer/songwriter, an author, a former international beach soccer player, and the host and creator of ‘Gareth Icke Tonight’, an uncensored current affair show on Ickonic Network. Gareth also presents “The Walk” a Youtube channel where he travels across the UK walking historical routes, and explores the UKs vast history, as well as the WTAF podcast where Gareth and Richard Willett take a comical look at world events. Gareth has just recently started a new show on Ickonic titled “The Power of People” where he interviews individuals who have gone through great challenges and overcome. Gareth is a husband and a father to two children, and lives in Derbyshire, England. Join us for an in-depth discussion with activist, host, and creator Gareth Icke where we discuss the current state of our world; and many of the issues confronting us worldwide in these disruptive times. Gareth brings a very lucid insights into many of the major issues that some are resistant to see. Connect with Gareth here: https://www.ickonic.com/

Matthew 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. Let’s face it: That’s a tall order but that’s exactly the tall order objective of doing the Great Work. The Magnum Opus. How do you “become god in human form?” Well like most things in alchemy it is not to be taken literally. But if you continually and consistently do God’s will then you are a reflection of God. The more you do this, and the more perfectly you do this, the greater the reflection you become. When you live a moral life, when you live a just life, a fair and principled life then you are living a godly life.

You are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High. ~ Psalms 82:6 What very few understand is the objective of true alchemy. Alchemy is a spiritual process. Turning the “lead” of low consciousness and awareness, into the “gold” of awakening. We can’t repeat this too frequently—repetition is the second law of learning…

The number one resource you have at your disposal is time. How are you utilizing it? We’ve been discussing this over the last 5 episodes now so we’ve invested a lot of time in the concept of time. That’s how important we find it to be...

Habit is a tool that either makes you or breaks you. It’s up to you...

Things that get scheduled get done. We previously discussed the Critical 6 in a prior episode. The six most important things you must do today to move you in the direction of your intentions and dreams. There are so many conversations we’ve had about knowing what you value, making sure your intentions are yours versus someone else’s, hopefully you’ve been a part of those conversations...

Most individuals are great starters but very poor finishers. Unfortunately, many personal development approaches as well as business workshops focus more on stamina than endurance. Just to recap: stamina is the energy to start. A lot of people get hyped up or excited to start something but very few have what it takes to finish. There was a popular meme going around about “the most important step is the first step” and the most important quality to success is just “showing up.” While there may be some grain of truth in these statements, they’re grossly oversimplified.  The reality is that the most important quality to success is showing up AGAIN; and AGAIN; AGAIN, and for the same objective not for all different objectives...

The true test of character is not persistence when you see a light at the end of the tunnel. It’s persistence when you don’t see the light. We’ve been discussing Time Alchemy. Transmuting low leverage time into highly productive time. Now this is a bit deceiving because ultimately. Low leverage activities are basically that—low leverage. Utilizing your time in a low leverage way is what needs to be transmuted. Let’s talk about the science behind this: modern science tells us that everything is energy… When it comes to productivity, with your time and energy there are two factors you must consider. Stamina and Endurance. Simply put, stamina is the energy and ability to start. Endurance is the energy to continue. Most have some degree of stamina but very few have endurance. Many start, very few finish. Here’s the harsh reality, whatever you’re going after is most probably going to take at least 2X longer than you predict; and it’s going to cost 2X as much. We’ll share with you the secret to stamina in a minute but it’s important to understand that “the difference between a master and a beginner is that the master can stand in the face of no results for longer.” We’ll talk about endurance of time in our next session but here are a few of the fundamentals to creating the stamina to start: Decide what you choose to create. Make is specific. Vague and ambiguous intentions create vague and ambiguous results. Decide what you’re willing to sacrifice to achieve it. There will always be a sacrifice. Get started with the work. Do what you know right now and allow what comes next to emerge as you move forward. No one knew “how” until it was done. We talked about the C6. This your daily plan once you have clarity on your vision and intention. You don’t need a 10 year or even a one-year plan in this fast world. You need a one-day plan, broken down into one-hour plans. Now get on with the work… next time we’ll discuss how to endure. Connect with us: https://harmonicwealthglobal.com

If you don’t schedule your day, other people and things will. When I work one-on-one in intensive coaching with individuals, I invariably ask them to send me a detailed example of their daily schedule. Most don’t have one—even those who do, don’t have a very specific one. Some want to tell me that they’re too much of a free spirit to schedule their day. Let me promise you, when you schedule your day, you’ll definitely get more accomplished. AND you’ll also find that you have more free time than you can imagine. Countless people I’ve interacted with, all the way back to my management days at ATT, spend an inordinate amount of time in the morning getting ready to get ready. Not having a plan is planning to fail. If you don’t schedule your day, other people and things will. 98% of the workforce say they are interrupted at least 3 or 4 times a day. The average individual checks his/her phone 58 times per day. Distractions can lead to committing twice as many errors as usual.  It takes 23 minutes and 15 seconds to fully recover focus after a distraction. Here’s a couple of quick and easy to implement tools to address the lack of schedule. Know where you’re going and what you choose to accomplish. C6. Before sleep. Hit the ground running. Put everything on the calendar. Even personal issues There are more strategies we’ll talk about later, but for now, these 3 things will help you begin to transmute a chaotic day into an orderly and productive day. And productivity equals fulfillment. Connect with us: https://harmonicwealthglobal.com/

“Your time is limited so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” ~ Steve Jobs So many live their life according to the opinion of others. In fact, very few actually live—they merely exist. Unfortunately, many make excuses for what they do or don’t do—and one of the greatest excuses we hear is “I don’t have time.” Actually, this is somewhat correct… you don’t have time—time has you. And time won’t compensate for hesitation or procrastination. In the Toltec tradition it maintains, that “most never do what’s necessary to change until they’re backed into a corner with a dagger hanging over their head.” While this is graphic, it’s profoundly true. When do most find the time to work out and change their diet? After their doctor tells them that they’re going to have a heart attack. When do most work on their relationship? When one partner says I’ve had enough and I’m leaving. When do most develop a relationship with God, their Creator? When their life turns upside down and they feel they need someone to save them. You see, the reality is you always find the time to do what you value the most. No exception. If you “can’t find the time” to do something, the truth is you don’t value what you’re considering doing. It has nothing to do with time. Most will cruise along business as usual until they need to avoid pain. It’s a fact that we do more to avoid pain than to seek pleasure. But it doesn’t have to be that way. You can always tell what someone truly values by two indicators: 1. Where they spend their time and 2. Where they spend their money. If someone’s calendar and bank statement is not full of something, you can bet they don’t value that something. It’s not about time management—you have the time. It’s about values clarity and self-management. So, the first question you must answer is: what do you truly value? All else flows from there. Connect with us: https://harmonicwealthglobal.com

We’ve been discussing the most important keys to Alchemy and Transmutation. Counting the cost before beginning the journey Knowing what you stand for Being willing to sacrifice for what you stand for. These are all important and another key that’s equally important is telling the truth. This may seem simple, but we live in a world where truth doesn’t often appear to be highly valued. In fact, those who tell lies are often rewarded while those who tell the truth are often persecuted, even prosecuted. Think about how many have been censored or canceled for stating something against the controlling narrative. Consider how many truths have been suppressed and swept under the rug because they didn’t serve the powers in charge. While again, telling the truth may seem simple—it’s just simply not applied. Bersabeh and I were discussing over coffee a few mornings back how almost without exception, those who are remembered as heroes in our world are those who went against the controlling narrative. Socrates Buddha The Christ JFK Ghandi… the list is endless. The authors of the US Constitution As you think about it now, it would be difficult—maybe impossible to find someone who we believe to be heroic that didn’t buck the common way of thinking. No one who was normal ever made history. Truth starts with being honest with yourself. This takes self-awareness and self-confidence. When you live a lie you must remember and protect the lie. Unfortunately, many if not most have little of either—self-awareness or self-confidence. You can’t be honest with others if you can’t even be honest with yourself. example: God, making a difference, being a good person… Ask yourself: Who am I really? What’s most valuable to me? For what purpose do I do the things I do? Do my actions align with what I’ve answered? Take an inventory: it’s not what you say that defines you, it’s what you do. Connect with us: https://harmonicwealthglobal.com

Are you happy with the state of your world and THE world in general right now? Are you truly willing to do what it takes to change your world first and then possibly change the world? Count the cost before you begin the journey because there’s always a price for the prize. Are you willing to make transmuting your own world the primary thing? Or are you just curious? Let’s face it, we live in turbulent times. As we’ve discussed previously, many are becoming increasingly disillusioned with the state of the world right now. There has never been a time more so than now where investing in your own growth, mental toughness, and emotional strength was as important as it is right now. We live in a time in which division is being propagated in the name of inclusion, control in the name of climate change, Woke ideology in the name of acceptance. Fear in the name of prosperity. Any thinking individual finds it difficult to not draw corollaries to the last days prior to the Fall of Past Great Empires. While we used to be grounded in God, family, country, and virtue… we’re now grounded in secular viewpoints that have in many respects made money more important than morality. Money has become our God. Politics has replaced philosophy. And work has become our religion. Bersabeh what is our faith? With this understanding we all must choose how we’re going to play going forward. We all must choose which side of history we’re doing to stand upon. What do you stand for? Until you are forced to take a stand, you’ll never really know what you stand for. What are you willing to sacrifice for what you believe in. Make sacred. Always will sacrifice. How do you want future generations to live? What do you want future generations to remember about you? These are a few of the questions to ferret out your true values and beliefs; and from an existential perspective, your beliefs are not what you say… they are what you do. It’s not who you are underneath, it’s what you do that defines you. ~ Batman Begins. Connect with us: https://harmonicwealthglobal.com

“Many are called but few are chosen” ~ Matthew 22:14 It’s vitally important to count the cost before you begin the journey. Many are “called” to higher principles, morals, and values. But what soon becomes apparent is that while they may be curious, but they’re not committed. The inarguable fact is that it’s difficult to escape the Matrix, or what we call socialized mind and programing. Some even like to speak about “escaping the Matrix” but then they turn around and talk about how they have 43 sports cars. This is not escaping the Matrix. From where we sit this is being fully under the spell of the Matrix. The beasts of money, food, sex, and power are extremely strong; and they’re very difficult to overcome.  Unless you’re totally asleep it’s very easy to notice where these primary values have driven this secular society. It’s very difficult for those who pay attention and are aware to not draw corollaries to the rise and fall of past nations. So, the first step to becoming a true alchemist. We’ve talked extensively about this being the art and science of transmutation. Not literal base metal into gold rather what appears to be chaotic and low value into something orderly and highly valued, possibly transmuting the secular back into the sacred, is to really decide a few things: Are you happy with the state of your world and THE world right now? Are you truly willing to do what it takes to change your world first and then possibly change theworld? Are you willing to make transmuting your own world the primary thing? Or are you just curious? Once you’ve answered these questions thoroughly and honestly, you can begin the process: Decide what you want Decide what you’re willing to give up to get it Get on with the work. More to come. Join us here: https://harmonicwealthglobal.com

This is our final episode discussing the processes of turning base metal into gold. If you’ve been following hopefully, you recall that this is an analogy for internal alchemy versus external alchemy.  The gold we are creating is the awakened consciousness of who you and what you are. The awakened consciousness of your full God-given potential. You’ll also recall it’s a comprehensive process: of cleaning up, growing up, and waking up. It’s not a quick fix or easy… nor is it supposed to be. If it were easy, then everyone would be fully awake and fully actualizing their potential.  It’s not supposed to be easy. But it is meaningful. Once your body, mind and emotions are clean, then you can truly step into adulthood. Leaving old childhood baggage behind. We discussed this in our last session if you missed it. If you’re not able to let go of old friendships, relationships, and habits then you still have some cleaning work to do. Relationships that grow together stay together. Relationships that don’t grow together invariably grow apart. Or one person has to choose to stay frozen in time. The ultimate objective of awakening is threefold: 1. The realization of oneness with God and all things. 2. The experience of oneness with God and all things. 3. The experience of Nothingness. While this is hard to describe, the alchemical and mystery teaching tell us that all things came from No-thing. Likewise, physics tells us that all material objects ultimately come from the Quantum Vacuum. And this experience—not intellectually but experientially—is the ultimate waking up to the reality of what is as well as the reality of what isn’t. When experiencing these 3 stages you are turning your mundane base metal into gold. In the meantime. Keep your commitment and focus on cleaning up and growing up. Keep doing the work. It states in the mysteries: Perseverance in the Great Work will be rewarded. And it will. And it’s worth it. Connect with us: https://harmonicwealthglobal.com

If you’ve been following this series, you must realize by now that alchemy—turning base metal into gold—is a long and complex process.  You might recall this process is a 3-step process: clean up, grow up, wake up. We’ve discussed the clean-up process pretty thoroughly. Cleaning your body of toxins: substances, poor nutrients, dietary habits, thoughts, emotions, feelings, contrary to most personal development, it’s difficult if not impossible to “clean up your thoughts” much less your feelings when your body and brain are toxic. In this episode we’ll move into the Grow up stage of the process. While this seems like something that happens naturally, it’s not. How many times do you know someone who is possibly in their 50-60s who claims that chronology, but they are very immature in their thought processes, habits, and emotionally? I know people in their 40s who are still living the life they were living in high school, college, or in their 20’s. Still partying every weekend, still playing video games every night, still hanging out with the same friends they had in high school.  The fact is that you grow up automatically, possibly to your early 20’s but once there, you’re on your own. There are plenty GenX adults who still blame their parents for their life; and they’re in their mid to late 40s; and a lot of them are very angry about their early years. Now, we’re not suggesting that possibly some horrible things happened to you in your formative years. We can relate to that. But to place blame upon those things is a childish thing to do. There are so many things we could speak about here. Still using the same slang and lingo (dude, cursing, “my bad”, rapper/gangster talk) that you used in your adolescence. Getting angry when you’re asked to work on a weekend. Planning your life around long holiday weekends so you can party. Hanging out with people half your age. I could go on but hopefully you get the point. Hanging out with friends from high school or college when you’re long past this time in your life; and the only thing you have in common is old memories. IF (big if) these people are growing at the same rate as you are and moving in the same direction, that’s one thing. But if they’re not… what do you really have in common with them? Chances are great you have a part of yourself, an arrested part of your personality from your past, that’s frozen in time. These are all childish things. Here’s a good one: building your identity and self-worth upon others’ attention or opinions. This is an epidemic driven by social media, and it affects people of all ages. I know adults who are still posing half naked on social media, or putting forward an identity that they know is not true. I had one client tell me: “Who I am on social media is not who I really am” Seriously? I replied, “Who I am on social media is exactly who I am in life.” What would have to happen for you to just be yourself? He replied, “that might not get as many likes and follows”. Unbelievable; and this guy was 33 years old. There’s a particular singer who is in her 60s… 65 to be exact… and she’s shooting videos of her dancing seductively on social media like she did back in her 20s. It’s not attractive—it’s sad. How mature and grown up are you in your consistent language, habits, and behavior?  There is no value in lying to yourself. This is why the cleanup portion must happen first. A lot of these parts of yourself are arrested due to unresolved emotional issues. The Christ told us, “Unless you become as little children you will never enter the kingdom.” Please remember there’s a vast difference between being “childlike” and being “childish.” Children have faith, they are open and inquisitive, they are joyful and playful. Children don’t have years of socialization and programming... https://harmonicwealthglobal.com

If you’ve been following for the last several episodes, it should be obvious that to “turn base metal into gold” is a lengthy and complicated process. You may recall we discussed some time ago that the first stage of alchemy is “melanosis” which is the blackening or destroying phase. For anything new to live something first must die. As we “put to death old dietary habits, old thinking processes, and now emotional processes we “clean the slate” so to speak to bring in the new. This is why it’s imperative to go through the clean-up process first before you can grow up and ultimately wake up. As difficult as cleaning up the physical and mental body may be, we suggest that cleaning up the emotional body is vastly more difficult. And it’s much more time-consuming. One of the best processes we’ve experienced and utilized for cleaning up emotional issues is a process called “recapitulation.” In some mystical traditions they call this process a soul retrieval.  In the Toltec traditions they state that you must recapitulate every single experience in your life. That’s a lot! Our experience is that while this may be empowering and powerful, you get a tremendous amount of energy regain as well as freedom from recapitulating your traumatic experiences. While you can do this for yourself it’s very difficult to take a 2nd person perspective or neutral position on your own emotional issues. Recapitulation is very different than traditional psychological therapy where you basically just recount past experiences to a therapist. In recapitulation you come from a new perspective and bring new resources from life experience that you didn’t have at an earlier age. Psychology does however prove that when you revisit a new memory with new resources you can never think of it, and feel about it, in the same way again. I attempted to recapitulate my past relationships every morning for a year and while I was somewhat successful, I was not entirely successful. So, by all means, do something or you’ll continue to live from past programming over and over again. If you’d like to have some help and support, both Bersabeh and I would love to help. https://harmonicwealthglobal.com