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| "Alchemy is the art of manipulating life, and consciousness in matter, to help it evolve, or to solve problems of inner disharmonies." - Jean Dubuis |
Soap making: I get a lot of mixed reactions when I tell people I'm a soap maker. Most people just grin and nod, and I imagine they're thinking something along the lines of "How delightfully mundane!" But just like everything in life, people tend to look at the surface of something, and decide they fully understand it. Little do they know that making soap is (at least for me) an exercise in art, magic, and alchemy. My soap isn't just about washing off dirt, though it certainly does achieve this. It's a joyous expression of who I am in this world. Each bar is like a cross-section of whatever is going on in my heart center at the time. The things I make are manipulations of life and consciousness. This process of manipulation (and resulting creation) is, in a sense, alchemy. When someone uses a bar of my soap, they aren't just washing themselves with a bunch of saponified plant matter. They're washing themselves with lifetimes of dreams, hopes, wisdom, and love.
So here we are! What follows shall be a record of my adventures in creation and healing. I'll be talking about lots of different stuff, like soap making, skin care, herbalism, plants, nature, philosophy, spirituality, and much more!
Love,
Ben
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