An alchemical recipe broken into steps, the basis for an extended meditation…  Quoted from Carl Jung, Mysterium Coniunctionis, CW XIV, paragraph 35

(A-F written by Jung;  G-K written by Dorn)

A.  Our starting point for these remarks was the designation of the lapis as “orphan,”

B.  which Dorn mentions apparently out of the blue when discussing the union of the opposites.

C.  The material we have adduced shows what an archetypal drama of death and rebirth lies hidden in the coniunctio

D. and what immemorial human emotions clash together in this problem.

E. It is the moral task of alchemy to bring the feminine, maternal background of the masculine psyche, seething with passions, into harmony with the principle of the spirit,

F. truly a labour of Hercules!

G.  In Dorn’s words:  Learn therefore, O Mind, to practice sympathetic love in regard to thine own body, by restraining its vain appetites, that it may be apt with thee in all things.

H.  to this end I shall labour, that it may drink with thee from the fountain of strength, and, when two are made one, that ye find peace in their union.

I. Draw nigh, O Body, to this fountain, that with the Mind thou mayest drink to satiety and hereafter thirst no more after vanities.

J. O wondrous efficacy of this fount, which makest one of two, and peace between enemies!

K. the fount of love can make mind out of spirit and soul, but this maketh one man of mind and body.”

One of the most interesting aspects of working with embodied active imagination is helping people out of the frontal cortex dead end they often find themselves locked in.  The mind/body split which so exemplifies the manner in which the collective carries consciousness has left us thirsting for connection, to each other and to psyche.  

We long for the intamacy of touch, and “the touching”…being moved by the surprising reveal of the mystery we are always, though we are often unaware, embedded within.