Table Of Content“Working with Ralph’s alchemical divination practices has led me to in
credible healing and greater consciousness. His vast knowledge, navigational
skills and mastery as a visionary guide have opened doors I never thought
existed. All areas of my life have improved, I am more grounded, centered,
aware and happier. This is reflected in my yoga teaching, my coaching and
in my personal relationships.”
—Briege Aranaga, Yoga Teacher and Personal Coach.
“The wisdom and insight that I have received during Ralph Metzner’s
divination workshops have been profoundly beneficial to me personally.
With great gratitude, 1 see also that 1 am a more skillful psychologist as a
result of attending these workshops. Ralph has created a powerful set of
tools for visioning and healing wisdom that we need in these difficult
times."
—Janis Phelps, Ph.D. Professor of Clinical Psychology and Therapist.
“Ralph Metzner, in the wise elder phase of his life, after many pioneering
journeys into the nature of human consciousness, brings us highly effective
means of accessing deep insight and healing that he calls Alchemical
Divination. I have personally found his work to be life transforming and
extraordinarily wise. This is a transmission not to be missed!”
—Rabbi Michael Ziegler.
"I have had the privilege of participating in Dr. Metzner’s Alchemical
Divinations on several occasions. Through his guidance I have healed past
traumas, deepened my love and compassion for my parents, grandparents
and sister, and have found greater clarity about my life purpose. His work is
both practical and appeals to my imagination. I come away inspired,
softened, and with a much broader vision of what my life is about. I use
what I have learned through these processes in my own life and with my
clients.”
—Athena Katsaros, Life Coach and Workshop Leader.
“Repeated experience with Ralph Metzner’s alchemical divinations has led
me to a deepening resolution of emotional and spiritual issues within myself
and my family and has allowed my life to more fully rest on a foundation
profoundly connected with the Earth and her mythologies."
—John Westover, Psychotherapist.
“Ralph Metzners divination practices represent alchemy for our time, our
place, our predicament. They are relevant and useful - an organized tried
and true system for self-transformation. It is a way of re-membering.”
—Phil Baum, Counselor, explorer, grandfather.
“Working with Ralph’s divination process has been a powerful tool for me
in my personal evolution. I have had invaluable insights about every aspect
of my life. He is a master at this work and a treasure in my life."
—Jill Moore, Holotropic Breathwork Facilitator.
“The Alchemical Divination processes and teachings offer a human techno
logy for accessing the inner realms, bringing human beings into contact
with the healing powers of the psyche. Ralphs work helps open doors into
the mysteries like no other, and here one may find the great grace that exists
between the worlds as the imagination opens and offers its hand in collabora
tive relationship with humans. These times we are in require new alignment
between the realms and Ralphs work helps people of many walks of life
create bridges that assist in collaboration and new flow of creative life energy
between heaven and earth. The impact of Ralph Metzners work is utterly life
changing — for humans, the spiritual realms, and our planet."
—Monika Wikman, Ph.D. Jungian Analyst, Author o/ Pregnant
Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness.
ALCHEMICAL DIVINATION
Accessing your spiritual intelligence
for healing and guidance
BOOKS BY RALPH METZNER
Worlds Within and Worlds Beyond (2013)
The Six Pathways of Destiny (2013)
Eye of the Seeress -Voice of the Poet (2011)
The Life Cycle of the Human Soul (2010)
Birth of a Psychedelic Culture (2010), with Ram Dass & Gary Bravo
MindSpace and TimeStream (2009)
Alchemical Divination (2009)
The Roots of War and Domination (2008)
The Expansion of Consciousness (2008)
Sacred Vine of Spirits — Ayahuasca (ed.) (2006)
Sacred Mushroom of Visions — Teonandcatl (ed.) (2005)
Green Psychology (1999)
The Unfolding Self (1998)
The Well of Remembrance (1994)
Through the Gateway of the Heart (ed.) (1985)
Know Your Type (1979)
Maps of Consciousness (1971)
The Ecstatic Adventure (ed.) (1968)
The Psychedelic Experience (1964), wich Timothy Leary & Richard Alpert
ALCHEMICAL DIVINATION
Accessing your spiritual intelligence
for healing and guidance
by
Ralph Metzner
Green Earth Foundation
&
Regent Press
Copyright © 2009 by Ralph Metzner
2n<l revised printing, 2011
All rights reserved.
ISBN 13: 978-1-58790-162-1
ISBN 10: 1-58790-162-5
Library of Congress Control Number: 2008941367
Published by
REGENT PRESS
www. regcn t p ress. net
GREEN EARTH FOUNDATION
www.greenearthfoimd.org
Printed in the U.S.A.
REGENT PRESS
2747 Regent Street
Berkeley, CA 94705
e-mail: [email protected]
Acknowledgements
I extend my heartfelt gratitude to Amanda Foulger, for her skillful edit
ing and clarifying of the text; to Cynthia Smith, for her meticulous de
sign of the graphics and lay-out of the book; to the Board of Directors
and financial angels of the Green Earth Foundation for their material
support of this writing and publishing project; and to the participants
in my alchemical divination workshops and earth vision circles, for
their invaluable feedback in the development and application of these
practices.
Sonoma, California,
October 2008
Contents
Foreword...................................................................................... i
1 Shamanism, Yoga and Alchemy............................................... 1
2 What is Divination?........................................................................17
3 The Seven Phases of Divination Rituals....................................... 41
4 Alchemical Light-Fire Yoga.............................................................59
5 The Life-World and Self-System.................................................... 77
6 Stages of the Life Cycle....................................................................89
7 The Well of Memory and the Tree of Visions.............................101
Appendix: The Three Chambers or Essence-Fields...................115
Notes & References......................................................................123
Description:ABOUT THE BOOKAlchemy, like shamanism and yoga, with which it is related, involves teachings and practices of physical, psychic and spiritual transformation. Divination is the practice of seeking healing and spiritual guidance from inner sources of wisdom and knowledge. The basic purpose of the alch
