A Beginner's Guide to Elemental Transmutation

1. The "Self" is an illusion; You do not exist as an independent entity. The boundaries between self and non-self, living and non-living are linguistic definitions born from analytical reductionism. 2. All things arise from and coexist with other things. All phenomena are products of interactions between other phenomena and on and on and on. 3. Chaos and Order exist on the same spectrum. Sometimes they manifest as polar opposites but deeper investigation often reveals their codependence; Out of chaos, patterns emerge and order is born. This eventually surrenders to new chaos so a new order can be born and the cycle repeats over and over as it always has for eternity. *****