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Ralph Metzner first wrote about alchemy when he was in his early 30s. He included a chapter on alchemy in his book Maps of Consciousness, which was published in 1971. In the last few years of his life Ralph recorded his thoughts on some 36 alchemical terms. Over an arc of some 50 years, Ralph worked on the practice of using alchemical processes for inner transformation. This volume of musings combines his earliest writing on alchemy with his last writings on alchemical terms, bookends of an arc of exploration.

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Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., (1936-2019), was a recognized pioneer in studies of consciousness and its transformations. He was a psychotherapist and Professor Emeritus at the California Institute of Integral Studies where he was also Academic Dean for 10 years in the 1980s. He collaborated with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert in the studies of psychedelic drugs at Harvard in the 1960s. He has written more than 20 books that include Ecology of Consciousness, The Well of Remembrance, The Unfolding Self, and Birth of a Psychedelic Culture (with Ram Dass and Gary Bravo).

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