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Alchemy 4.0: Cultivating Joy, Creativity and Enlightened Power Through the Mastery of Change
Expected availability in print: Late 2027
Are you craving change in your life? Is there something specific that you want to accomplish—a vision or goal that inspires you? Is there some part of your life that you want to heal or improve? Or do you simply want life to feel better?
In this unique and illuminating book, author Clark N. Riley reinvents the 2,000-year-old practical philosophy of Western alchemy for the modern era. The result is a comprehensive how-to manual for mastering change and living a joyful, creative and empowered life.
Using the traditional symbols of Western alchemy as tools for reflection and discovery, Riley weaves together insights from modern physical sciences, modern technologies, complex systems theory, cognitive psychology, Jungian psychology, art, literature, philosophy, classical mythology and our global spiritual traditions to explore how human beings experience change and how we can use change to improve our lives and the world. Most important, the book teaches us how to use alchemical symbols to achieve life-changing personal revelations that liberate and empower.
Riley explains every idea in the book in terms that virtually anyone can understand, and he provides straightforward instructions for applying the ideas in everyday life. The result is an accessible, systematic approach to mastering change, developing deep self-understanding, and building a life that overflows with delight, wonder, awe, love, and gratitude.
The title Alchemy 4.0 refers to the history of the Western alchemical tradition, which previously flourished in three major eras. The goal of this book and of the broader Alchemy 4.0 Project is to establish a fourth era of alchemy as a widespread field of practice and research. Find out for yourself why a fourth era of alchemy is the wisdom tradition of the future.
You are more powerful, more creative and more capable of joy than you know. Alchemy 4.0 provides the map, the tools, and the inspiration to help you prove it to yourself.
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Imprint: Signal Moment Press
On sale: Early 2028 (subject to change)
Trimsize: 6x9in
Pages: 500 (estimated)
Price: TBD
Upon release, Alchemy 4.0 will be available for purchase at the following retailers:
- Amazon
- Barnes & Noble
- Books-A-Million
- Bookshop
- Target
- Walmart
- Independent booksellers nationwide
Alchemy 4.0™
Alchemy 4.0 is the modern reformulation of Western alchemy presented in the book Alchemy 4.0. As author Clark N. Riley explains: “To view alchemy as an occult or magical pursuit is to misunderstand it entirely. Alchemy is nothing more or less than the study and practice of change. Among our modern sciences and philosophies, we have had no single field dedicated to understanding and mastering change in all its expressions. Alchemy is that field and has been all along. Alchemy’s ultimate purpose is the cultivation of joy, creativity and enlightened power within ourselves and in the world. Mastering change is the key to thriving in life.”
The Alchemy 4.0 Project
The Alchemy 4.0 Project is a broad endeavor to re-establish Western alchemy as a widespread field of practice and research. The book Alchemy 4.0 provides the foundation of the effort. Additional offerings and activities will follow, including:
- Additional books
- Online articles & videos
- Online communities & events
- In-person events
- Formal research projects
- Community-based programs