The Alchemy of Abundance: Pragmatic Processes for Challenging Times
August 7-9 2009, Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California
The Alchemy of Abundance invites you to move deeply into the creative intelligence of your own life, to catalyze change in your relationships, creative pursuits, finances, and spiritual understanding.
Whether you have experienced financial crisis, loss of a loved one, loss of a job, or are otherwise in transition, this workshop offers a profound and pragmatic process for aligning with the forces of fate as well as the forces of freedom, with abundance and anguish, with health and illness. For registration and more information, visit www.Esalen.org.
The Practice of Abundance in Times of Shortage
by Rick Jarow
The Practice of Abundance may initially seem like an extravagant anomaly in the times we are living through, but the contrary may actually be more accurate. Never has there been a more important time to understand exactly what Abundance is, and to develop and experience it in our daily lives.
If there is any genuine measure of Abundance it is this: the absence of anxiety. Abundance is not as much about having things, or even about creating desired circumstances as it is about being free: being unconditionally free to fully embrace the life we are given to live. Abundance is indeed a state of faith and trust, pure and simple. Faith and trust in “who or what” is less significant than the ability to open to the flow of Shakti (Qi, Spirit, Energy) in our lives; and to allow ourselves to be touched by its creative flow. Once the intent to be an open vessel is clear and ongoing, the vast storehouse of limiting and conditioned belief systems (conscious and unconscious) can be swept away by the torrent of always available energy, bliss, freedom, and play that is the creation. Our job is to stay on focus, not merely on “I want” focus, but on “this wondrous play” focus. As each thorn of attachment and rancor is removed, situations that seemed hopeless or unsolvable reveal themselves in a new light. Here is where “Alchemy” comes into play. What was separate becomes synergized, what was dull, becomes brilliant; and the “state of the world” is revealed to be exactly what is necessary to take the next step.
Abundance does not preclude anguish, but it is just the most challenging situations (loss, separation, illness, etc.) that can be springboards to vocation, authenticity, healing, and radiance. Ongoing radiance can be received, and it changes the way we experience all aspects of our life in the world. The Alchemy of Abundance work ignites our possibilities to experience freedom, clarity, and compassion - to work with any given life situation.
