In accordance with the findings of inner alchemy, all that we truly are is awareness; a pure, unbounded field that exists prior to thought, sensation, and form. Awareness itself can in very simple terms be described as the focus of our attention. Within the paradigm of biological existence (that stretch of time we recognize as “being alive”) we have a unique opportunity: the possibility to consciously cultivate and strengthen aspects of ourselves that, in other states or phases of existence,...