Alchemy is the art of transforming energy from one state to a higher state. What “higher” state means in this context is a state that serves the harmony of the autonomous self. this is in contrast with “lower” states of energy that may serve egoic patterns but that disrupt the harmony of the total system of the Self — ie. the self’s relation to the Whole.
Typically this transformation results in a liberation of energy from rigid systems (built off reified self-other separation). Such systems are rigid because energy gets stuck at the level that we disassociate from it ie. once we distinguish between whats in the domain of “self” and what is “not self” we create a fracture in the Experience of wholeness and bar ourselves access to the fragment of Experience that we designate “not self”.
This energy gets stuck in that system of relating to reality (whether it be a particular relationship to oneself, an other, or reality at large) and an energy system that is practiced and perpetuated over time concretizes into a mindSET.
What is the mechanism by which energy can be liberated from the self-perpetuating nature of a particular mindSET?
The simple answer is: through compassion.
Compassion is the fundamental means by which we REcognize, REmember, and REsonate with that exiled energy that we “otherized”/fragmented from our Experience when we designated it as “not self”.
Compassion and love is therefore the ultimate alchemical process.