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"Research has pierced all extremes of my sex." -Bowie, "Voyeur of Utter Destruction", Outside.

Does Science respect the distinction between intellect and instinct? Does your doctor play God well enough for you to turn your life over to him or her? The debate is always over how much a person is able to heal themselves, by going within. (What would that do to the business of medicine?) It doesn't seem rational to have so much access to information on wellness, and not heal yourself. The problem is doctors can only treat the patient, the patient must want to be well. It is possible to go inside one's self, and in a non-linear fashion of meditation, trace the patterns of where the woundedness resides, and shift them.

The nature of alchemy is a process of stages; from chaos, there is the seed of coagulation and birth. With birth, there is budding, followed by ripening, fruition, and then death. After death comes putrefaction; a kind of contamination element which breaks down the vessel of the body and then transmutes it, once again, into chaos. In Buddhist Meditation we use the consistent visualization of white light and breathing (Tonglen) to integrate a personal understanding of this process. Combined with what we can glean from science and our doctors, we might discover the needs of our own healing.

Alchemy is the relationship between vessel and its spirit. Our lives are alchemical, shifting monthly with the cycles of the planets, and yearly with the season. Rather than understand the immanence of these shifts within ourselves, people tend to be the Voyeurs of Utter Destruction - watching and waiting while these shifts take place in others... Or, we allow doctors to "tell" us about our own bodies; to "treat" us as objects of experimentation.

We could attune to the signals of our Angels and Spirit Guides for help and guidance... We have the power to pray and ask them for signs; to be guided to the help, tools, medicines and information that we need. Know that any process of healing or transformation is bigger than you; greater than any form of medical advice or assistance. Your relationship with your body and pain has everything to do with your daily activities, and what you put in your body. Take charge of your own transmutation - let your doctors know that you have put in a "word" to their own angelic guides for help. "Certainty" does not rely completely on Science.

"It has become increasingly apparent to me how mortal one's life is, and I think that really starts to unclothe all your illusions." - David Bowie; Raygun, Oct. 1995

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