Alchemy

I'm deeply honored that you are here. Thank you for taking an interest.

Let's talk about Alchemy.

Alan Watts used the example of breathing.

You could say "I'm breathing" as if you are doing it - and you are. But if you forget about breathing for a while, it'll go on just the same.

And so, you are both doing It, and It Is happening to you.

That's how this work feels to me.

I'm not even sure why I do it, but I do it, natural as a tree sprouting out of the ground, reaching up, and growing branches. It's just my thing A thing I do And a thing that is happening to me - moving through me.

In September 2016, just after I arrived on campus as a college freshman, these words came to me:

"Don't make a living, design a life"

I put it in my Instagram bio (lol).

I didn't choose to have these words move through me, but they did just the same, and it became a throughline for my entire life.

I was just beginning to make the first few weaves out of All the thread I'd been given.

Back to breathing:

In Out Inhale Exhale Expansion Contraction The heartbeat of The Universe - of All Life - within you.

But notice: what goes In is not what comes Out.

Oxygen In Carbon dioxide Out

Somewhere in between Inside you one thing becomes another. That's  alchemy.

I'm lying with a girlfriend in the grass under a tree in Silver Springs State Park just as the sun begins to set. It's getting colder. She thanks me for my warmth. I laugh. "It isn't mine, it's just passing through me, but you're welcome."

This heat, this energy - the Life force - moving through us Here for a "time" Then gone Moving on None of it ours to keep

Like a flower It opens, blossoms, takes full expression, then falls away

And notice the alchemy

Sunlight, water, soil In A bloom Out

We Are That

Life, the flowering

Where what's received Becomes what's made

And Here You Are You Have the opportunity To make something with It Now how cool Is That? And cooler still Oh this Is just too good ... Wait for It ... What you make Is Entirely Up to You

Yes, you can do whatever you like And be whatever you like

How gorgeous?

And This Is me Making what I like Making the decision To make the most of myself To make the most of All I have been given Seeking what God wills me to do, and doing It

This - making the most of yourself - is what I call choosing to take the red pill in life. We’ll talk more about that next time.

And my hope Is that something you find Here Helps you make the most Of what you’ve been given

Because what you make Becomes something someone else receives

And so The alchemy continues

We Are All In Co-Creation And we couldn’t possibly do It without each other

So Thank You for Being Here

Love Jordan