CrystalGeezer
My secret's my enzyme.
Adam Mclean sums up the peacock phase nicely here, it's a false sense of the completion of work, but it's a legitimate phase nonetheless.
I gotta work with what I'm given which currently is a show on NBC. So there. It's not that bad. THere's a lot of awesome metaphors in it. You can see Jamesy in the girl who is the BEST actor on the show.
At this point the alchemists would often encounter the Peacock's Tail, a sudden appearance of a rush of colours, an iridescence on the surface of the material in the flask, which made some think they had achieved their goal. This could arise through the formation of a layer of oil on the surface of the watery mass (in the wet way) or some oxidation-reduction reactions, say on the surface of liquid metal (in the dry way). It was a fleeting show of colour changes, that pointed to the fact that one was on the right path, and reabsorbed the energies released in initial emergence of the polarities. It was a midway point of the process, which could be seen as a false conclusion. Many people who have this experience in their inner life often falsely assume they have reached the end of the work, and attained inner transformation and enlightenment. The inner vision of the PeacockÕs Tail, beautiful though it may be, is merely a digestion of the polarities of the black and white stage. These must be transformed further into spiritual tinctures, if we hope to have any permanent transformation within the soul.
I gotta work with what I'm given which currently is a show on NBC. So there. It's not that bad. THere's a lot of awesome metaphors in it. You can see Jamesy in the girl who is the BEST actor on the show.