A Course in Modern Alchemy · Volume I
Nigredo
The Black Stone: forty-eight chapters on symbol, conditioned experience, the path of realisation, and the difficult return to ordinary life.
The blackening
The beginning of the work
Nigredo is the first stage of the alchemical journey: the point at which familiar explanations begin to lose their authority and the raw material of transformation comes into view.
The course approaches this territory in four ways. Mythos introduces its symbols and stories. Dharma examines the conditioned processes of mind and matter. Object considers maps of awakening and the apparent destination of the work. Subject returns to lived experience: rupture, uncertainty, commitment and the establishment of a way.
Each chapter page brings together its course video, a concise written guide, key ideas, definitions and references. The material can be followed in sequence or used as a reference library.
The complete course
Four approaches to the same enquiry
Each section contains twelve chapters. Use the section page for an overview, or open the chapter list to go directly to a particular subject.
Mythos
Symbols, wounds and beginnings. The Fisher-King, the Rebis, the Shadow and the Dark Night provide a language for the breakdown of an established identity.
Dharma
A working model of conditioned reality. These chapters examine consciousness, mental factors, materiality, dependent arising, suffering and the path beyond it.
Object
Maps of practice and realisation. The section considers the Great Work, altered modes of experience, path consciousness and the traditional grades of awakening.
Subject
The lived aftermath of disruption and insight. These chapters follow the movement from fall, exile and confusion towards commitment, orientation and an ordinary life shaped by practice.