[Inner Traditions] How to manifest light for spiritual regeneration in our dark age of technological materialism • Explores the significance of light in spiritual life—drawing on the esoteric tradition of alchemy—to transcend materialism and seed new cultures rooted in perennial wisdom • Examines ideas from Western mysticism, Tibetan Buddhism, and other traditions to show how spiritual alchemy is a path to transformation and regeneration • By working with spiritual images, shows how to advance spiritual evolution and heal from artificial culture by learning to separate illusion from reality This book weds contemporary lightwork and classical, transformative alchemy to offer a path to achieving spiritual evolution. Examining the contradictions of modern times through the concept of the “end of an age,” Arthur Versluis reveals how to transcend materialism and create new cultures of light rooted in perennial wisdom. Versluis considers the ramifications of the materialism