WITH ARUN DEVA

Saturday, July 18 from 12:00 to 2:00pm

VIA ZOOM: Registrants will be sent a link at least one hour before the event begins.

We understand alchemy as the transformation of base metal into gold. In Vedic terms, however, it is best described as rasāvāda: the revealing of our Essence. Thus we are both the dross metal as well as the gold revealed through the alchemy of our consciousness. Rasa which means essence also refers to the flavors of our lives: the emotional content. When we turn our emotional dross of fear, anger and grief into the gold of creativity, innocence and joy we learn to surf the waves of our lives no matter what the tide.

When our emotional state is one of creativity, innocence and joy, we see beauty, feel compassion and instinctually open to universal waves of loving. When our emotions are dominated by fear, anger and grief, we become susceptible to the 6 enemies of the mind: lust, rage, greed, jealousy, envy and delusion.