The Alchemy of Freedom

The Philosophers' Stone and the Secrets of Existence

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  • Well-known
  • spiritual
  • teacher
  • A.
  • H.
  • Almaas
  • uses
  • the
  • metaphor
  • of
  • the
  • mysterious
  • philosopher's
  • stone
  • to
  • discuss
  • a
  • tremendous
  • liberating
  • power
  • that
  • leads
  • to
  • endless
  • enlightenmentFor
  • millennia
  • alchemists
  • sought
  • the
  • philosophers’
  • stone,
  • the
  • miracle
  • substance
  • believed
  • to
  • be
  • the
  • key
  • to
  • all
  • the
  • secrets
  • of
  • existence.
  • The
  • quest
  • was
  • fueled
  • by
  • some
  • of
  • the
  • prime
  • questions
  • of
  • human
  • existence:
  • What
  • am
  • I?
  • Why
  • am
  • I
  • here?
  • How
  • has
  • this
  • world
  • come
  • to
  • be?A.
  • H.
  • Almaas
  • shows
  • that
  • the
  • tremendous
  • liberating
  • power
  • of
  • the
  • mysterious
  • philosophers’
  • stone
  • is
  • closer
  • to
  • us
  • than
  • we
  • realize.
  • In
  • fact,
  • it
  • is
  • the
  • true
  • nature
  • of
  • all
  • reality—in
  • all
  • times
  • and
  • all
  • places,
  • without
  • being
  • limited
  • to
  • being
  • anything
  • in
  • particular.
  • Through
  • the
  • philosophers’
  • stone,
  • real
  • transformation
  • can
  • happen,
  • our
  • consciousness
  • can
  • become
  • free,
  • and
  • we
  • can
  • open
  • to
  • all
  • the
  • possibilities
  • of
  • reality.Almaas
  • discusses
  • the
  • factors
  • that
  • are
  • involved
  • in
  • igniting
  • the
  • catalytic
  • property
  • of
  • the
  • philosophers’
  • stone
  • and
  • then
  • begins
  • to
  • unpack
  • the
  • properties
  • of
  • true
  • nature
  • when
  • it
  • is
  • free
  • of
  • constraints.
  • Finally,
  • we
  • are
  • left
  • with
  • the
  • revelation
  • that
  • true
  • nature
  • is
  • endlessly
  • knowable,
  • and
  • yet
  • nothing
  • we
  • can
  • know
  • or
  • say
  • about
  • it
  • exhausts
  • its
  • mystery
  • and
  • power.
  • The
  • result
  • is
  • a
  • new
  • understanding
  • of
  • what
  • liberation
  • and
  • practice
  • are—and
  • a
  • view
  • of
  • what
  • it’s
  • like
  • when
  • seeking
  • ceases
  • and
  • life
  • becomes
  • a
  • process
  • of
  • continual
  • discovery.
  • We
  • begin
  • to
  • appreciate
  • that
  • the
  • freedom
  • of
  • reality
  • expressed
  • in
  • the
  • complete
  • and
  • fulfilled
  • life
  • all
  • human
  • beings
  • seek—and
  • few
  • find—is
  • actually
  • the
  • simplicity
  • of
  • the ordinary.
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