Jasun Horsley's blog

The heroic journey usually entails a quest for an object of highest value. In spiritual language, the object is enlightenment. In alchemical terms, enlightenment is the recovery of our true "stellar" nature, the real gold, an "undivided mind." It is more than just a poetic metaphor that the unearthed gold which completes this transformation is sourced primordially in the cataclysmic union of stars. (more)

The ego has dethroned the soul, and enlightenment is only possible when the slimy usurper has been outed and slain, and the soul can re-animate the body again. A spiritual teacher is not a philosopher, prophet, healer, or sage. He is a hitman, an assassin. (more)