20 Jul 2023 · 6 min
Sean Clayton shares how hermetic principles and alchemical practices transformed his life after trauma. He argues that external information is incomplete conjecture, and invites listeners to find truth within themselves through vulnerability and gratitude.
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Welcome to the Science of Abundance Daily Alchemy podcast. I'm your host, Sean Clayton, and my story is pretty interesting. Went through a ton of trauma, former incarceration, suicide attempts, sexual abuse in my life. And one of the things that's happened in my life is I've actually used hermetic principles, alchemy, all these really cool tools that we hear when we talk about the Illuminati, whatever you want to call it, and develop practices in order to change and affect my lives differently. So within this podcast, I will be giving tidbits and bites for individuals to be able to bite into on a daily basis. That will allow you to take baby steps to change your life. But at some point, you'll find the door that starts to change the effect of how you show up on a daily basis. Enjoy this, give feedback, come to my Instagram comment, whatever it might be, always open because we wouldn't be here without each other. Please enjoy and thank you, and I love you. Welcome back to another episode of Daily Alchemy with Sean Clayton. Good to have you guys back. Have you ever had somebody say something to you and then it takes you down like this crazy rabbit hole? I'm sure we all have, right? And I was reading a comment on a post that I had put up and the guy said that this is all conjecture and nonsense. And my initial response was, isn't everything? Isn't everything conjecture and nonsense? And then it took me down a further rabbit hole to where I'm like, how does this now tie back to all the correspondence and aspects of alchemy of what I've been talking about? And I'm like, huh? Everything is a half truth. There is no complete information. We chase after this understanding of things around, trying to draw conclusions or informed decisions based on information. All information is incomplete. If you look at the visual senses and the perspective that we actually have on life, we only see very little. Like, we only see, you know, the visual spectrum of life. However, there's infrared, there's all this other stuff that's around us we don't see. So we can't make really any decision about anything that's not conjecture in some way, shape or form. The only thing that we do get to is that we say, okay, well, if there's consensus associated with it now, I'm going to agree as a group that that conjecture is now reality. So is it that I need other people to now create my reality so that my reality is real? Or from the alchemist perspective, can I actually do it from within and know with every bone in my body, every fiber of my soul that what I'm creating is from the truth and reality from within. So am I going to use the outside world to determine the nonsense that I see, other conjecture that I see or that I perceive or that I say even, or am I going to know within myself that I am actually connected with my higher self? I'm walking with the aspect of integrity. I'm walking with an aspect of truth. And then through that truth and vulnerability, light will shine. And when light shines through, that's when I guess you could say that that conjecture and nonsense kind of goes away because you are so standing in what you know to be true. We can take the story of Christ on the cross and, you know, he knew with everything in himself that this is his truth. Now, whether you subscribe to that being the Son of God or any of these other things, that's neither here nor there. The example of somebody standing in their faith for what they believe in, whether it was him, whether it was Buddha, whether it was Moses, whether it's Gandhi, whether it's Martin Luther King, whether it's, you name it, any of those individuals that have stood in their truth and said, this is my reality and didn't care about what the outside world said, created a different world. And they created not only a different world for themselves, but for the world outside of them. So, as the alchemist of your life, I encourage you to remember that it's all conjecture and nonsense, and that's the outside world, the reality and the truth lives within you. And when you have the ability to become super vulnerable with receiving yourself, that's really when the world outside of you will start to just glitter in a different way. That's when everything that you see starts to become a lot more beautiful. That's when you start to see the miracles and everything. On the next episode, I'm going to talk a little bit about seeing the miracles and literally everything around you being able to say, you know what? That leaf on that tree is a miracle. The book that I'm reading is a miracle. The fact that I'm listening to this podcast of conjecture and nonsense is a miracle. You know, the water that I drink, the air that I breathe, and when you can appreciate all of it as miracles, that's a whole different way to look at the world, because then you're in extreme gratitude for every second of your life. So receive it all as conjecture and nonsense. Guys know that is actually where the door you have to go through to see the reality of yourself. And when you can know your truth more than any other truth outside of you, and you can be really vulnerable in that space of your higher knowing, the world shows up differently. Thank you guys for tuning in, and I love you.
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