#1 Breaking Through Clarity
This is the story how Alchemy of the Spirit came about.
About 5 years ago, when Wietse and I(Alexander) regularly enacted miraculous transformations, came the impulse of Alchemy of the Spirit (AlotS). This impulse was an excitement to share and extend our gifts of healing with the world. Spread our services, abilities, wisdom with like minded, curious or even passionate souls.
In the desire to manifest our work, I was contemplating what symbol could convey the work we would do and I introspectively felt that it needed to be a silver 7-pointed star. 4 years later I started my first variations:
Being caught up in the web of life, we have not found the thread, up until now, to bring forth together our energy in this work.
A new beginning for both of us and for all enjoying our work.
As we are overwhelmed with information we like to share, we thought to keep it simple and actual. We will simply start to share what is happening today and from there, explain or magnify what understandings, tools, magic we use in our interactions.
So, this brings us to our first story we would like to share:
Breaking through Clarity
Although this title represents the energy of an actual challenge Wietse is facing in his life, it is also reflecting the readiness from our side to come forward in this way. To break through to you with clarity with these stories.
His Challenge
Wietse and I were calling for a catch up, and he extended to me that he was troubled to feel unsafe being around his father. And in order to explain what safety issue he felt, it is important to explain certain notions in order to understand the context in which we explain “unsafe”:
It is important to understand that within a person or a body, you may exhibit different aspects, personalities, stories at different times. For example, through the growth of someone’s life, one is behaving differently to parents, than siblings, or friends, the police, etc…
We can consider as well how certain people bring about certain qualities out of you, make you feel a certain way, and that there are many shades of relating. From this angle, we can consider the Idea that we can have multiple personalities. Not only in the negative sense(Multiple Personality Disorder) but also from the positive sense(Multiple Personality Order)
What Wietse was implying in his unsafe feeling, was that one of his personalities, his fatherhood personality, couldn’t feel safe when he would be around his father. The reason why he could not feel safe, was because he would develop a certain sympathy instead of empathy for him.
Many times, his father would rattle about how incapable he feels now, in his old age, to complete tasks. Wietse mentioned many times that this is not the case and also shares that from his point of view, he manages to do more than what he says or thinks. Although Wietse knows his father can do more than he says, Wietse developed over time, sympathy for the lack of confidence of his father.
This resulted in him to also motivate the idea that his father is more incapable than what he actually is. And brought, as a side effect, a conflict in his integrity; between his knowing and his communication.
This is where the root of the insecurity and unsafe feeling stems from. And from here, because we know energy is the other side of matter, and that symbology is a tool to reflect an energy signature, Wietse had the inspiration to remind himself what a healthy fatherhood personality could look like in terms of symbology.
This is what came during our talk:
One of the main topics that came up, was the lack of clarity embodied. Because for communicating a lack of confidence, one must not be clear with one’s self esteem. Therefore came the idea of the yellow pyramid, now portrayed as a yellow triangle.
The need to ground this reality as physical and reliable is the red stream stemming down from the pyramid, anchoring in mother earth which we have represented as the “grounding” symbol of electricity.
The two serpentine energies, one in blue and one in green, are the balancing and uplifting energies that sets the horizontal reality, alive and at play. Green is the activating healing energies, and blue the relaxing healing energies.
Having these realities put together as seen in the symbol we made, brings an alchemy of white-yellow radiance around all what is below the yellow pyramid.
After we settled this, Wietse started to feel much more grounded and safe within his own fatherhood perspective. Secure to allow his biological father to be as he sees fit, while not being absorbed in the illusions proposed.
So, is this it? Was that all that was needed? Is drawing symbols all there is to nullify challenges, like feeling unsafe?
In a sense yes, in another no. The answers depends on how much you allow symbols to affect you. How much do you believe in them…
Sympathy vs. Empathy
So the issue here has been to give into Sympathy instead of Empathy
Where to draw the clear line?
What is even the difference between sympathy and empathy?
Sympathy is our ability to feel others while taking the negative beliefs with it. In this case, The lack of Self-Confidence gets replicated within Wietse.
Empathy is our ability to feel others while staying positive with it. In this case, listening carefully and understanding that something is not aligned with who you(or anybody) truly are. Using any situation as a jumping board to help you move closer to who you truly are.
Reflecting on this, while I’m writing this story, is somewhat one of my biggest challenges.. To not succumb to the negative beliefs of others.
A part of me thinks: Well that’s easy. Just stay with what works for you. BUT what works for me, might not work for another. And this in return might create more disconnection with my surrounding while of course, paradoxically create more connection with myself.
And having to deal with this disconnection with most people that I interact with is somewhat exhausting. (I’m not asking to sympathise with me :)
This is so often the challenge that lies at the heart of so many diseases in the world. We would rather sacrifice inner truth for outer connection.
But living out this in integrity is truly a courageous act. As it’s important to remember that because so many live out of integrity, and being born within a society that is out of integrity, it asks from ourselves a deep re-questioning of the status quo. Do I truly live my truth? Am I still willing to sacrifice my values for integrity?
And this is an aspect that I haven’t previously seen in the dynamic of sympathy until now.
Two aspects actually.
Sympathy is often expressed as a reinforcement of the status quo. But energetically, if you don’t express it explicitly and you live with people that do not live by the same values, it will create conflict. And avoiding or denying this conflict will result in a passive and unconscious agreement to what is out of alignment. Soothing out the conflict outside, which will regulate or smooth the tension and allow the outside momentum to take over. Your level of denial will decide the level out of alignment your willing to experience.
Consenting to sympathy, creates intrinsically intimidation. Agreeing with people out of integrity is paired with an intimidation to yourself. You’ve allowed what you don’t agree with, to live in you.
And not being aware of being intimidated keeps you out of your integrity; Hence reinforcing the momentum or belief: Feeling sacrifice, is the way to continue.
Here a Light Language grid I made for soothing and healing intimidation. Becoming aware of the boundaries crossed with gentleness and grace.
