Ep300: The Spiritual Practice of Alchemy - Katarina Falkenberg & Tommy Westlund
Donnerstag, 3. April 2025 · 1 h 40
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In this episode I am once again joined by Katarina Falkenberg & Tommy Westlund, alchemists, practitioners of Western Esotericism, and authors of ‘Alchemy, The Divine Work’.
Katarina and Tommy detail the stages and methods of the spiritual path of Western alchemy. They explain the movement through four phases, describe the operations employed during each, and reveal the signs of progress that indicate success.
Katarina and Tommy reveal how to pray to the Madonna, how to purify karma, how to work with fire and emotions such as anger and sadness, the role of tinctures and elixirs, and methods of astral travel and archetypal work.
Katarina and Tommy also consider the power of the imagination, the interaction with external alchemical operations and inner personal refinement, and recount stories of entity encounters and reality creation.
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Topics include:
- Intro
- “Alchemy, The Divine Work”
- Practices of the alchemical path
- Prima materia and meditation
- Meditating on alchemical emblems
- The metaphysics of prima materia consciousness
- Praying to Black Madonna
- How to pray
- Use of the imagination
- Signs of contact with the Black Madonna
- Purifying karma and releasing traumas
- Inhaling suffering and exhaling love
- Purification and divine providence
- The Nigredo phase
- The seven planets and chakras
- Theosophical ideas about seven governing forces
- Moving into the Albedo phase
- Mercurial consciousness
- Nigredo vs Albedo phases
- Working with the astral body
- Work with herbs and creating tinctures
- An alchemical elixir toast
- The Citrinitas phase
- Working with fire
- Using anger and sadness
- Death is not the end
- Reintegrating the Dark Angel
- The magic of imagination
- Fourfold processes and the quintessence
- Making the soul bigger
- Working with the Egyptian and Gnostic traditions
- Projecting the four elements
- Pilgrimages to magical locations
- Visitations from giants and other beings
- Meeting inner archetypes in the outer world
- The Rubedo phase
- Microcosm and macrocosm
:109 - Fasting and insight into the shadow
- Signs of process on the path
- Working at a deeper level
- Katarina’s novel manifesting into real life
- Creating your own universe
- Life as a creative project
- Working with the ego
- Death and resurrection
- Bad gurus with siddhi powers
- The power of partnership
- Humility and the flaming heart
- Practice advice for the eager student
- Balance vs obsession
- 10-15 years to a successful white wedding
- Working for the next life
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Previous episode with Katarina Falkenberg & Tommy Westlund:
- guruviking.com/podcast/ep238-alchemy-the-divin…
To find out more about Katarina Falkenberg & Tommy Westlund, visit:
- alkemiskaakademin.se/eng/about-us
For more interviews, videos, and more visit:
- www.guruviking.com
Music ‘Deva Dasi’ by Steve James
