Caroline Myss – The Gold of the Soul

Imagine if we were a great mystery school, meeting in a hidden old building as they once did, teaching what outsiders thought were formulas to turn lead into gold. In truth, those alchemy teachings were symbolic—revealing that the ordinary lead of life could be transformed through understanding inner laws of such depth and power that what remained was the gold of the soul. 

Please enjoy this session from my live workshop, “Castle Combe Workshop,” from 2013. If you’d like to see the rest of this workshop – you can click here to learn more »

So much of our suffering is self-created. We are, in many ways, the engines of our own pain. When we look closely at the sources of our confusion, unhappiness, or despair, what we often find is not an outside cause but a story we have told ourselves—an expectation, a projection, or a conclusion that simply is not true. These inner myths shape how we see our lives and even how we see God.

In this workshop, we will explore what it means to live in a world that was not designed for us, but rather we for it. We will reflect on the freedom that comes when we release the belief that life owes us explanations or guarantees of safety. What would your life look like if you no longer needed to know *why* things happen as they do? That shift becomes a living theology—one that has the power to change everything.

Together, we will examine the fears and expectations that keep us bound, and learn how to dismantle them. This process is like an inner alchemy: transforming the heavy lead of illusion and fear into the gold of the soul. The mystery schools taught that the true agent of transformation is the individual, and the great masters—Jesus, Buddha, and others—show us how to see through illusion and recognize the mind’s constant tendency to create what it wants to see. This workshop invites you into that same alchemical journey: to release what is false and uncover the truth that transforms.