Whats an example of how matter affects consciousness?
We get up in the morning and we’re tired and you have to move, you know, you’re really make an effort to get out of bed sometimes. Or in other times, you can be so just filled with the momentum of an activity that you just fill with energy and it doesn’t even bother you. You see that a lot in the New Age movement, particularly with crystals. People say if you use this crystal, it can help affect this part of your consciousness, this part of your body in terms of health. It’s called the Doctrine of Correspondences, and alchemy uses that all the time. So it would say, if you want to experience a particular level of consciousness, you can elevate through the use of different kinds of products. We would call these tinctures. One of the things that a person makes very early in their studies is a spagyric tincture, very similar to an herbal extract, except alchemy treats it a little differently. It allows you to have more pronounced experiences, very deep and very profound. Could you describ
