The New Alchemy: To Turn You On

Containing talks from two early meditation camps, this volume features Osho speaking on the theosophist, Mabel Collins. He speaks of the intensity and totality needed by meditators, the relationship between sex and death, the role of the master, and pain caused by active meditations. He also answers basic questions such as, Why meditate? Why seek? What is the difference between mind and consciousness... between surrender and blind faith? How can I be wholehearted in meditation? He answers many specific questions about his different techniques. The appendix, Catharsis and Meditation: Steps on the Path, presents Osho's reasons for cathartic techniques.

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From the introduction:

"The discourses contained in this volume were given in early 1973 at two meditation camps conducted by Bhagwan Shree, the first at Anand Shila and the second at Mt. Abu. (...) The first series, which comprises the major portion of the book, is based on Light on the Path, a theosophical work that was transmitted to mankind through the vehicle of Mabel Collins. (..)

The meditation techniques that Bhagwan Shree led after each discourse (which are discussed extensively in the appendix, which contains the second, though earlier, series of talks) were a push in the direction of the path."

The preface and chapters 1 - 17 were recorded in the Bikaner Palace Hotel, Mt Abu, April 6 - 14, 1973.

The 17 chapters of the Appendix were in fact recorded earlier, at Anand Shila Meditation Camp near Bombay, Feb 9 - 17, 1973. There, they were on each day the second, English part of the discourse. (The Hindi parts were published as Samadhi Ke Sapt Dwar (समाधि के सप्त द्वार).)

Chapter 1-17 later published as The Voice of Silence

time period of Osho's original talks/writings: Feb 9, 1973 to Apr 14, 1973 : timeline

number of discourses/chapters

36, consisting of:

Introduction by Ma Satya Bharti (not included in the number of chapters).
A five-page preface, which is a talk from Osho at the start of the Mt Abu meditation camp. (Its text is not part of the CD-ROM, but it is actually named lecture #1 on the audio-tapes and mp3s of this series.)
17 main chapters. Of these, chapter 6 and 7 are actually one lecture, as heard on the audio, where it is called "#7".
A 15-page chapter: "A Period of Silence - A History of the Anand Shila Meditation Camp" by Ma Satya Bharti, describing her personal experiences during the camp.
The "Appendix - Catharsis and Meditation: Steps on the path", consisting of 17 chapters.

editions

The New Alchemy: To Turn You On

Talks on Mabel Collins' Light on the Path

Year of publication : 1978

Publisher : Rajneesh Foundation

ISBN 0-88050-098-0 (click ISBN to buy online)

Number of pages : 280

Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : H

Size : 222 x 147 x 28 mm

Author as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Published by Ma Yoga Laxmi

Editor: Ma Satya Bharti

Design: Sw Anand Yatri; Ma Prem Tushita

Photography: Sw Krishna Bharti

Printed by B.B. Nadkarni at New Thacker's Fine Art Press Pvt. Ltd., Mahalaxmi, Bombay 400 011

We gratefully acknowledge the use of excerpts from Light On the Path, M.C. Theosophical University Press, Pasadena, California, U.S.A., 1960. Chapters 1 - 17 are based on excerpts from this text.

Introduction: Ma Satya Bharti