While in Vienna, I discovered a treasure trove of alchemical manuscripts in the 700-year-old university library. Fascinated by the highly symbolic writings and illustrations, I joined a group of university chemists who studied alchemy and Hermeticism. From those meetings, I was inspired by the idea that consciousness is a force of nature that can be applied to experimental work. I then sought initiation into the craft of alchemy and apprenticed for two years with a practicing alchemist. I was fascinated by the lore of the Emerald Tablet, which was said to be the common source for much of the practical and metaphysical work of the alchemists, and I traveled to Egypt tracing its roots. I uncovered unpublished versions of the Tablet and have since become a leading authority on its history and meaning.

     I was convinced that consciousness is a powerful force of nature ignored by scientists yet embraced by alchemists, who understood its importance and formulated universal principles of transformation that are part of the very fabric of the universe. The alchemists’ “Philosopher’s Stone” is a heightened state of awareness that exists in the formative realm between energy and matter, suspended in the twilight between what exists and what does not exist. Since the eighth century, alchemists have been describing the human brain as a kind of magical touchstone created from a hidden Substance that is distributed throughout the universe. That quantum-level Substance, which is the source of reality, is universal consciousness. For me, consciousness is the logos, the original ordering principle in the cosmos, the anti-entropic power that organizes the primal chaos into more perfect forms. [1]

     I believe that since consciousness exists on all levels of reality, there is never a complete extinction of consciousness--only a change in its intensity or concentration. The spectrum of consciousness ranges from a non-verbal unconscious realm to a fully conscious level of expanded awareness, which is direct knowing of reality (or Gnosis). At the absolute zero-state level of consciousness (death), we exist beyond duality only as a monadic sense of being without object, knowledge, thought, or memory. At that level, each of us exists in complete innocence and pure potential--a primordial "I am that I am" state. Various religious and spiritual traditions attach a variety of attributes of the “soul” at this level, such as reincarnation and transmigration into other dimensions.[2]

My Bio

Dennis William Hauck is an author and researcher in consciousness studies. His work focuses on the nature of consciousness and the subtle interactions between mind and matter. Hauck attempts to merge various philosophical and scientific traditions into a broader science of consciousness and has contributed to many related areas, including the history of science, psychology and alchemy, and the serious study of exceptional human experiences. [3]

According to Dr. Bernard Lightman in A Companion to the History of Science: "Dennis William Hauck is a prolific author and has been at the center of efforts to institutionalize modern alchemy through a number of organizations, conferences, and journals. For Hauck, classical science has its limits, in that it can explain only our physical reality, not the deeper hidden reality from which the physical stems. He decided that alchemy offered one path to that hidden reality, and so, knowing that this path of discredited ‘pseudoscience’ might forever taint his career, Hauck decided it was worth the risk to discover solid evidence and challenge the dominant Newtonian paradigm."[4]

Hauck has translated a number of important manuscripts dating back to the fourteenth century and has authored over a dozen books, including In the Mind of the Universe: The Monad and You! (Alchemergy 2024), The Monad Manifesto: Merging Science and Spirituality (Alchemergy 2022), Alchemy: Energize Your Life by Freeing Your Mind (Penguin 2021), The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Alchemy (Penguin 2008), and The Emerald Tablet: Alchemy for Personal Transformation (Penguin 1999).