Visionary Heart Alchemy

The Core Intention Commitment Statement is a declaration that a you repeats on a daily basis in support the alignment of your life to the Core Intention. While the specific words one uses to express the core intention are not critical, there are some guidelines that need to be followed in order to fully implement the power of the Principle of the Core Intention.

1. It must be an expression of absolute commitment. To get the maximum benefit from the power of the Core Intention one must absolutely commit to it. It must become the absolute bottom line in your decision making process .
2. It must be an expression of choice. You are the one choosing to commit to living out the core intention. No one is forcing you
3. you must make the choice irrevocable. This is can be a scary element but making the choice irrevocable will magnify the transformative power of the commitment immeasurably.
4. The core intention should not be limited in scope. You don’t want to limit it to some particular expression of identity unless that particular identity is meant to encompass all aspect of life. For example the core intention shouldn’t be something like being the best businessperson you can be or the best athlete you can be even if you think that is how you can best benefit beings. These can be formulated later as support intentions as expressions of your visionary heart path but they are too limited in scope to be the core intention. On the other hand if you have some word or phrase from a spiritual tradition you practice that represents the highest attainment a human being is capable of then it is appropriate to use it even if it seems specific -  Achieve enlightenment, Accomplish the Great Work, become a Master Sacred Warrior, bring forth the fire from within, become One with God, become perfect servant of the goddess, become an Ipsissimus.
5. The core intention can be expressed as an achievable end - enlightenment - or as an ongoing process, -walking the beauty way.
6. The two parts of the core intention must be connected, for example achieving enlightenment for the sake of being of maximum benefit to all beings.
7. it must include the understanding that the everything else is sacraficable to the end of achieving the core intention.. This also may seem scary but it must be understood the living you core intention is the source of all fulfillment. Anything that is not in alignment with the core intention will not actually bring satisfaction except of the most superficial and fleeting kind, No real benefit ever comes directly from activity or pursuits that aren’t congruent with the core intention. (one may if one is smart gain learning and insight that are of potential benefit but this potential is only activated by pursuing the core activity and these benefits would have been gained more efficiently by pursuing the core objective to begin with.)

The following template may be used as a guide.

I vow and irrevocably choose to be absolutely committed to (personal expression of achieving maximum actualization of the human potential) so that I may be of maximum benefit to all beings. All the other objectives and intentions I set are to support this Core Intention and may be sacrificed or changed in service to it.

It is important to note that this statement doesn’t need to, and in fact should not conform to what are commonly considered guidelines for formulating good goals. The Core Intention commitment statement need not be very specific in the way a goal should be. If your spiritual tradition has a specific attainment that expresses the maximum potential of human life then that part can be specific. In most case even where specific terms exist what they actually mean is usually somewhat vague and hard for the conceptual mind to grasp. The only specificity in the ‘benefit to beings’ section is that it be maximum or greatest. The Core Intention Commitment Statement should not indicate how you will be of maximum benefit. The ‘How you will be of benefit’ is related to the Visionary Heart Path. You can’t actually know what maximum benefit is and you don’t need to know it to intend to be it. In life, you must make choices and it is with each of these choices that you decide, as best as you are able, to choose with the core intention as the primary guideline. With each of these choices you will never know with conceptual certainty what the greatest benefit is. One can merely choose according to ones current capacity and understanding. That is all that is required to remain congruent with the Core Intention.

The Core Intention is not measurable and may not even seem attainable. The only aspect of SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Timetable-able) goals that applies to the Core Intention Commitment Statement is relevance. The Core Intention is the most relevant of all intentions.

It may seem that committing to the Core Intention is committing to massive austerities. But, in most instances, this is not the case. The Core Intention is a universal intention. The specific way one lives in order to fulfill that intention is unique and personal. This unique and personal path is called ones Visionary Heart Path. Ones visionary path is not a static, predetermined thing. It is a dynamic; ever changing unfolding that is shaped by many factors including your special talents and you deep heart felt passions. It almost always contains multiple options. The Visionary Heart Path will be covered in more detail in a future post.

The purpose of the Core Intention Commitment Statement is to help you align yourself and you activities with the Core Intention and consciously set oneself on ones Visionary Heart Path. It aims your life at the only thing that can bring real and lasting satisfaction. It is seeking first the Kingdom of Heaven so that all else may be added unto you

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Because many alchemical principles are pointing to Absolute Truth and/or extremely vast relative truths, they can not be readily defined nor can they be understood simply through reading descriptions. No amount of description can convey their vastness or their subtlety. Descriptions point to meaning beyond words like, as a traditional axiom states “a finger pointing to the moon. If you fixate on the finger you will not see the moon in all its glory.”

To gain insight into the functionality of many of the Alchemical Principles you must allow the understanding to arise, by letting the descriptions educe the deeper meaning from within yourself. This is facilitated by being repeatedly exposed to the principles from multiple points of focus. Also the principles are mutually informing of each other so exposure to one principle will facilitate the emergence of the deeper meaning of another. This is much like those paintings that, if examined closely, look like a bunch of dots but when viewed from a distance a picture comes into focus. It is impossible to get the meaning of any individual dot until you see it in the context of the whole.

An even more apt simile is that the process is like those “magic eye” paintings that require you to shift into a different kind of focus before the picture comes forth. Simply seeing all the individual dots is not enough; you must have all the dots and then shift focus. Many of the Alchemies (specific alchemical techniques) have this “shift of focus” as their primary intent. In fact one o f the many ways the principle “goal” of alchemy is the transformation in consciousness that makes the meaning and function of the principles self evident. This simile is not exact of course. The Magic eye is an all or nothing deal while understanding and realization of the alchemical principles, more often the not, unfolds gradually with some principles becoming clearer sooner then others.

So far I have made several posts about the Principle of Two Truths and I will make several more follow this one. I am giving so much attention to this principle because it is a central key to understanding how all the principles function. It is mother of all the rest of the principles. While none of these posts can convey the full meaning and function of the Principle of Two Truths, even an intellectual familiarity with it can prevent many errors in understanding and, hopefully they will serve to build an adequate launch pad from which to venture into its vast meaning and function.

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